Quotes By Michelangelo

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

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

Genius is eternal patience.

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.

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

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

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

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

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