Michelangelo Quotes

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

Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

I am still learning.

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.

I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.

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

Cel ce iubirea-si ia drept arma, frange destin si ura, forta si mizerii.

A quel pietoso fonte, onde siam tutti, S'assembra ogni beltà che qua si vede, Più c'altra cosa alle persone accorte;

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

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

Critique by creating.

Se duc genii si durere, mor cuvinte si placere, generatii sub tacere, fum in vant, sub soare umbra.

Too much good luck no less than misery
May kill a man condemned to mortal pain,
If, lost to hope and chilled in every vein,
A sudden pardon comes to set him free.
Thus thy unwonted kindness shown to me
Amid the gloom where only sad thoughts reign,
With too much rapture bringing light again,
Threatens my life more than that agony.
Good news and bad may bear the self-same knife;
And death may follow both upon their flight;
For hearts that shrink or swell, alike will break.
Let then thy beauty, to preserve my life,
Temper the source of this supreme delight,
Lest joy so poignant slay a soul so weak.

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