If you’re looking for some words of wisdom, look no further than Michelangelo. This Renaissance artist had a lot of insightful things to say about life and art. Here are some of our favorite Michelangelo quotes.
Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in the small town of Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany. Michelangelo Buonarroti, as he became known, was a highly successful artist, sculptor, and architect. He was a master of the Renaissance style, which emphasized the use of classical forms and proportions. Michelangelo’s most famous works include the statue of David and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Michelangelo was known for his creativity and imagination. He was able to take ordinary objects and turn them into masterpieces. One of his most famous works is the statue of David. Michelangelo was able to create this statue by using his imagination and creativity. He was able to take a block of marble and turn it into a masterpiece. Michelangelo is a perfect example of how creativity and imagination can be used to create amazing works of art.
38 Michelangelo Quotes
- “Genius is eternal patience.”
2. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
3. “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.”
4. “Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”
5. “Patience is eternal genius”
6. “I couldn’t give you something mediocre even if that’s all you asked for.”
7. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius. ”
8. “Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”
9. “The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.”
10. “Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.”
Famous Michelangelo Quotes
11. “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
12. “To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.”
13. “From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.”
14. “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
15. “Please don’t trouble yourself. God didn’t make us to abandon us.”
16. “Your greatness is measured by your horizons.”
17. “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
18. “Love is a beautiful image, imagined or seen within the heart; the friend of virtue and gentility.”
19. “Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
20. “No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.”
Michelangelo Quotes About Live and Art
21. “If we have been pleased with life ,we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.”
22. “There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”
23. “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”
24. “As you give out so shall you receive.”
25. “The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection”
26. “No great work of art is ever finished.”
27. “I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”
28. “Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?”
29. “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.”
30. “Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.”
Thought-Provoking Michelangelo Quotes
31. “Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.”
32. “Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!”
33. “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
34. “Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.”
35. “Take care of yourself, and watch out for those you have to watch out for, for one does not die more than once, and nobody returns to put right the things done wrong.”
36. “My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.”
37. “Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.”
38. “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?”
39. “Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”