180 Quotes by Michelangelo

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.

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.

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.

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

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

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?

Ancora Imparo(Yet I am learning)

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.