180 Quotes by Michelangelo

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

To touch is to give life.

I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.