Quotes from 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.
- Michelangelo
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.
- 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.
- Michelangelo
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
- Michelangelo
No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
- Michelangelo
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.
- Michelangelo
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
- Michelangelo
I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
- Michelangelo
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
- Michelangelo
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
- Michelangelo
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
- Michelangelo