Author: Michelangelo

Quotes

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.

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.

- Michelangelo

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

- Michelangelo

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

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

- Michelangelo

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

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

- Michelangelo

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

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

- Michelangelo

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

- Michelangelo

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

- Michelangelo

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

- Michelangelo

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

- Michelangelo

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