Quotes from Michelangelo

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

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

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

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.

To touch is to give life.

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.

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

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

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

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.