A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,While pain and guilt still linger here below,Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;Then do not wake me, keep your voices low. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
Ancora Imparo(Yet I am learning) - Michelangelo Buonarroti
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? - Michelangelo Buonarroti
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
Critique by creating. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
As when, O lady mine,With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould,The more the marble wastes,The more the statue grows. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. - Michelangelo Buonarroti