Quotes from Michelangelo
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.
- Michelangelo
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
- Michelangelo
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
- Michelangelo
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
- Michelangelo
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
- Michelangelo
I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
- Michelangelo
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
- Michelangelo
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
- Michelangelo
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
- Michelangelo
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
- Michelangelo
And still I am learning.
- Michelangelo
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
- Michelangelo