Michelangelo

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint…

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art…

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within…

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all…

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection…

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free…

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since…

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle…

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course…

I live and love in God’s peculiar light…

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with…

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands…

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else…

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish…

Genius is eternal patience…