180 Quotes by Michelangelo

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.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

I am still learning.

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

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

Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.

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