Top 15 Michelangelo Quotes

Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)

Add quote

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Bio from: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Alternative Names: Michael Agnolo • Michael Angel • Michael Angelo Bonalotti • Michael Angelo Bonnarotti • Michael Angelo Buona Rota • Michael Angelo Buona Roti • Michael Angelo Buonarota • Michael Angelo Buonaroti • Michael Angelo Buonarotti • Michael Angelo de Bonarotti • Michael Angelo di Buonarotti • Michael Anglelo • Michaelangelo • Micheangiolo Buonarroti • Michel Agnolo • Michel Ange Bonaroti • Michel Ange Bonarotte • Michel Ange Buonaroti • Michel Angel de Bonarrotta • Michel Angelo Bonarota • Michel Angelo Bonaroti • Michel Angelo Bonarotti • Michel Angelo Bonarroti • Michel Angelo Bouonarota • Michel Angelo Buona Rota • Michel Angelo Buonarota • Michel Angelo Buonaroti • Michel Angelo Buonarotti • Michel Angelo Buonarrota • Michel Angelo Buonarroti • Michel Angelo de Bonarota • Michel Angiello • Michel Angiello Bonarota • Michel Angiolo • Michel Aniol • Michel Langano Bonorath • Michel'Angelo • Michel'Angelo Bona Ruota • Michel'Angelo Bonarota • Michel'Angelo Bonaroti • Michel'Angelo Buonarota • Michel'angelo Buonarroti • Michel'Angiolo • Michel'Angiolo Buonarroti • Michel-Ange Buanaroti • Michel-Ange Buonarota • Michel-Ange Buonaroti • Michel-Ange Buonarotti • Michel-Ange de Buonaroto • Michel-Ange de Buonarotti • Michel-Ange de Buonarroti • Michel-Angelo Bonaruoti • Michelagniolo Buonarroti • Michelagniolo di Lodovico de Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni • Michelagniolo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni • Michelagnolo • Michelagnolo Buonarotti • Michelagnolo Buonarruoti • Michelagnolo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni • Michelange Bonaroti • Michelangelo Bonarota • Michelangelo Bonaroti • Michelangelo Bonarrota • Michelangelo Bonarroti • Michelangelo Bonorotti • Michelangelo Buonarota • Michelangelo Buonaroti • Michelangelo Buonarotta • Michelangelo Buonarotti • Michelangelo Buonarrota • Michelangelo Buonarroti • Michelangelo Buonnaroti • Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni • Michelangelo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni • Michelangelo di Ludovico Buonarroti • Michelangiolo • Michelangiolo Bonarroti • Michelangiolo Buona Rota • Michelangiolo Buonarota • Michelangiolo Buonaroti • Michelangiolo Buonarroti • Michele Angelo Bonarota • Michele Angelo Bonarroti • Michele Angelo Buonarota • Micheleangelo Buonarota • Michiel Angelo • Michiel Angelo Bonaroti • Michiel Angelo Bonarotti

From Wikidata (CC0)

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

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

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

Genius is eternal patience.

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

Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)

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.

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

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

Critique by creating.

The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,
as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,
it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,
and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

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.

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