Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes

"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti in Beauty quotes.

"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. "
-Michelangelo Buonarroti

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "
-Michelangelo Buonarroti in Painting quotes.

"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."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti in Art quotes.

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. "
-Michelangelo Buonarroti

"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."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti in Goals quotes.

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti

"Genius is eternal patience."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti in Genius quotes.

"I live and love in God's peculiar light."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti

"Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti