Michelangelo Quotes

If such a gift I truly have been given
And yet, divided, torn, still burn and stray
He is to blame who fashioned me for fire.

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

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

So now, from this mad passion
Which made me take art for an idol and a king
I have learnt the burden of error that it bore
And what misfortune springs from man's desire...
The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time
That I was given for reflecting upon God.

The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes.

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?

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

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

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

Don't trouble yourself. God didn't make us to abandon us.

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

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

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

Patience is eternal genius