Michelangelo Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

"Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti died on 17 February 1564.
"Your greatness is measured by your horizons

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.

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

Patience is eternal genius

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.