Michelangelo Quotes

The Best Of Artists Hath No Thought To Show Which The Rough Stone In Its Superfluous Shell Doth Not Include; To Break The Marble Spell Is All The Hand That Serves The Brain Can Do.

As When, O Lady Mine, With Chiselled Touch, The Stone Unhewn And Cold, Becomes A Living Mould, The More The Marble Wastes, The More The Statue Grows.

The Greatest Artist Has No Conception Which A Single Block Of White Marble Does Not Potentially Contain Within Its Mass, But Only A Hand Obedient To The Mind Can Penetrate To This Image.

My Beard Towards Heaven, I Feel My Nape Support / The Back Of My Head, I Grow The Breast Of A Harpy / And My Brush As It Drips Continually / Upon My Face, Makes It A Gorgeous Floor.

I Sometimes Set Myself Thinking And Imagining That I Find Amongst Men But One Single Art Or Science, And That Is Drawing Or Painting, All Others Being Members Proceeding Therefrom.

From Such A Gentle Thing, From Such A Fountain Of All Delight, My Every Pain Is Born.

Is It Any Wonder, Since, When Near The Fire, I Was Melted And Burned, If Now That It's Extinguished Outside Me, It Besets And Consumes Me Inside, And Bit By Bit Reduces Me To Ashes?

It Is Therefore Indisputable That The Limbs Of Architecture Are Derived From The Limbs Of Man.

Whenever A Great Painter... Does A Work Which Appears To Be False And Lying, That Falsity Is Very True.

In My Opinion Painting Should Be Considered Excellent In Proportion As It Approaches The Effect Of Relief, While Relief Should Be Considered Bad In Proportion As It Approaches The Effect Of Painting.

Lorenzo De' Medici Seeks Highly Skilled, Aesthetically Oriented Individual To Conceive And Implement Several Major Public Projects. You Are A Generalist With Sound Training In Structural Engineering, Synthesis Of Pigments And Christian Iconography. Some Climbing Involved

A Great Sculpture Can Roll Down A Hill Without Breaking.