Quotes by : Michelangelo Buonarroti

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's....

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....

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than....

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....

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

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the....

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