180 Quotes by Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of...

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

He who follows another will never overtake him

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.