180 Quotes by Michelangelo

Can’t you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness – these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

I couldn’t give you something mediocre even if that’s all you asked for.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Nature did all things well.

I live and love in God’s peculiar light.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art – perfection.