Michelangelo Quotes
Top 78 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michelangelo
Michelangelo Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Michelangelo on Wise Famous Quotes.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
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.
Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.
Whenever a great painter ... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at ... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.