Quotes by : Michelangelo Buonarroti

Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,while the oppression and the shame still last;not seeing and....

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

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....

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

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

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

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

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