Michelangelo Quotes

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

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

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

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.

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

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.

Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

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

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

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

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

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.

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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