1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter, Sculptor
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo – [Arts and Artists]
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo – [Beauty]
Everything hurts.
Michelangelo – [Pain]
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo – [Genius]
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo – [Cities and City Life]
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo – [Mastery]
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo – [Work]
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo – [Desire]
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo – [Promises]
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo – [Detail]
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo – [Spirit and Spirituality]