Michelangelo Quotes - Page 2

I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

To touch is to give life.

Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

He who follows another will never overtake him

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.

Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

As you give out, so shall you receive.

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.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

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

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

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

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

I am always learning.

I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

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