Michelangelo Quotes

"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."
"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven."
"Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts."
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."
"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
"Genius is eternal patience."
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
"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."
"I am still learning."
"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint."
"I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are."
"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."
"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
"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."
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."

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