Michelangelo quotes

“Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.”

— Michelangelo

“From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.”

— Michelangelo

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

— Michelangelo

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

— Michelangelo

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

— Michelangelo

“The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.”

— Michelangelo

“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.”

— Michelangelo

“The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.”

— Michelangelo

“It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”

— Michelangelo