180 Quotes by Michelangelo

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

Genius is eternal patience.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor.

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.