Michelangelo Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?”

“The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.”

“Genius is eternal patience.”

“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.”

“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”

“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”