Quotes from Michelangelo

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

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

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Patience is eternal genius

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

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

I am no artist - please come and help me.

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.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

He who follows another will never overtake him

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

And still I am learning.

I am still learning. (at age 87)