180 Quotes by Michelangelo

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

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.

Serene I fold my hands and wait.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.