Michelangelo
I am always learning.Collection: Always Learning
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.Collection: Art
Patience is eternal geniusCollection: Inspiration
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.Collection: Eye
I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.Collection: Faults
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?Collection: Inspiration
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.Collection: Inspirational
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.Collection: Giving
After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.Collection: Men
If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.Collection: Love
Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.Collection: Stress
If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.Collection: Country
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.Collection: Pain
Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involvedCollection: Christian
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.Collection: Relief
A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.Collection: Art
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.Collection: Lying
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.Collection: Badass
Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?Collection: Inspiration
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.Collection: Art
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.Collection: Inspiration
My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor.Collection: Support
The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Perfect
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.Collection: Art
He who follows another will never overtake himCollection: Inspirational
Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?Collection: Chaste
Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.Collection: Beautiful
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.Collection: Sculpture
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.Collection: Artist
As you give out, so shall you receive.Collection: Inspiration
Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!Collection: Lord
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.Collection: Beauty
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.Collection: Beauty
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.Collection: Religious
Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.Collection: Years
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.Collection: Art
I am still learning. (at age 87)Collection: Age
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.Collection: Pride
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.Collection: Art
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.Collection: Travel
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfectionCollection: Art
To touch is to give life.Collection: Giving
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.Collection: Wise
The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.Collection: Men
Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.Collection: Shining
I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.Collection: God Love