Michelangelo Quotes & Sayings

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.”

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”

“I am still learning.”

“If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.”