Michelangelo Quotes
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer.
(1475 - 1564)
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
[Art]
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
[Beauty]
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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
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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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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
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Genius is eternal patience.
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
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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.
[Art]
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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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I live and love in God's peculiar light.
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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.
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I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.
[Creativity]
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