24 Quotations by Michelangelo
- 1. A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

- 2. Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my rel ...

- 3. Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

- 4. Everything hurts.

- 5. Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.

- 6. Genius is eternal patience.

- 7. His hope is treacherous only whose love dies with beauty, which is varying every hour, bit, in chast ...

- 8. I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to e ...

- 9. I am still learning.

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

- 11. I live and love in God's peculiar light.

- 12. If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love wo ...

- 13. If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

- 14. It is better docration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxatio ...

- 15. It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

- 16. Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

- 17. The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially cont ...

- 18. The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.

- 19. The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and ...

- 20. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

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