Quotes from Michelangelo

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

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

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

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

I know well that, at this hour, I could as easily forget your name as the food by which I live by; nay, it were easier to forget the food, which only nourishes by body miserably, than your name, which nourishes both body and soul, filling the one and the other with such sweetness that neither weariness nor fear of death is felt by me while memory preserves you to my mind. Think, if the eyes could also enjoy their portion, in what condition I should find myself.

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

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.