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....

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.

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....