180 Quotes by Michelangelo

No great work of art is ever finished.

Patience is eternal genius

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

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 great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.