Michelangelo Quotes

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

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

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

As when, O lady mine,
With chiseled touch
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mold,
The more the marble wastes,
The more the statue grows.

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

In van! Cand vrei sa cazi, nu iei aminte la bratul care vrea sa te ridice.

Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)

If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.

"I am still learning." -Michelangelo late in his life.

Ce viclesug, ce forta si ce geniu, stapan ingrat, m-ar duce iar la tine, chip milostiv ce-n inima porti moarte?

Din ce e farmec si vremelnicie si indurare, raul meu se naste.

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?