Quotes from Michelangelo
Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.
- Michelangelo
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
- Michelangelo
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
- Michelangelo
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
- 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
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
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
- Michelangelo
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
- Michelangelo
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
- Michelangelo
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
- Michelangelo
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.
- Michelangelo