A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
- Michelangelo Quote

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
- Michelangelo Quote

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
- Michelangelo Quote

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
- Michelangelo Quote

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
- Michelangelo Quote

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
- Michelangelo Quote

Genius is eternal patience.
- Michelangelo Quote

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
- Michelangelo Quote

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
- Michelangelo Quote

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
- Michelangelo Quote

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
- Michelangelo Quote

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
- Michelangelo Quote

I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo Quote

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
- Michelangelo Quote

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
- Michelangelo Quote

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
- Michelangelo Quote

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
- Michelangelo Quote

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
- Michelangelo Quote

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
- Michelangelo Quote

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
- Michelangelo Quote

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
- Michelangelo Quote

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
- Michelangelo Quote

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
- Michelangelo Quote

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
- Michelangelo Quote

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.
- Michelangelo Quote

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
- Michelangelo Quote

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
- Michelangelo Quote

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
- Michelangelo Quote

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
- Michelangelo Quote