Michelangelo Quotes

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's han...

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

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

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

Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.

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

I am still learning.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

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

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

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

Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.

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

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love wo...

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.

Genius is eternal patience.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that cele...

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's han...

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the h...

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old ...

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

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

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to e...

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is eas...

Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.