Michelangelo Quotes
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
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The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
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For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
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Nature did all things well.
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Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle.
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Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
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Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
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Serene I fold my hands and wait.
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
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I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
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He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
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Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.
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With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
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Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
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If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.
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Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.