Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

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.

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,
While pain and guilt still linger here below,
Blindness and numbness-these please me alone;
Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

As when, O lady mine,
With chiselled touch
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes,
The more the statue grows.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.

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.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

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.

Critique by creating.

Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)