Michelangelo Quotes

Bana sevgili olan uykudur
bir güzelden daha güzel olan
bu kadar acı ve utanç doluyken içim
ne büyük şans kapanması kulaklarımın ve gözlerimin
bu yüzden fısıltı ile konuşun huzurumu bozmayın benim.

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

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

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

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

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

Please don't trouble yourself. God didn't make us to abandon us.

Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.

I am still learning.

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

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.

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.