Michelangelo | Good Quotes

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin’s; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived

I live and love in God’s peculiar light

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all

Genius is eternal patience

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible

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I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin’s; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived

I live and love in God’s peculiar light

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all

Genius is eternal patience

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible