Quotes by : Michelangelo Buonarroti

The greatest artist does not have any conceptWhich a single piece of marble does not itself containWithin....

But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy....

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting....

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,with peace you force all the restless work to end;those....

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,While pain and guilt still linger here below,Blindness....

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Critique by creating.