Quotes by : Michelangelo Buonarroti

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

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

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there,....

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

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

As when, O lady mine,With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould,The more the....

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.

Critique by creating.

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