Quotes by : Michelangelo

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend....

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy.....

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand....

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Genius is eternal patience.