Michelangelo quotes

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. (Michelangelo)
The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.
Michelangelo
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.
Michelangelo
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Michelangelo
It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
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
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Michelangelo
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. (Michelangelo)
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
I am still learning.
Michelangelo
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo
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
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo
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)
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Michelangelo
As when, O lady mine, With chiseled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mold, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
Michelangelo
If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.
Michelangelo
Critique by creating.
Michelangelo