180 Quotes by Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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

One paints with one's head, not one's hand.

Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Nature did all things well

If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.