180 Quotes by Michelangelo

Genius is infinite painstaking.

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

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