Michelangelo Quotes

They are so beautiful that they would grace the entrance to Paradise.

I have only too much of a wife in this art of mine, who has always kept me in tribulation, and my children shall be the works I leave, which, even if they are naught, will live a while.

Your Lordship sends to tell me that I should paint and have no doubts. I answer that painting is done with the brain, not the hands.

Nothing the greatest artist can conceive That every marble block doth not confine Within itself; and only its design The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

I’ve finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.