Michelangelo Buonarroti Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by Michelangelo Buonarroti A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Michelangelo Buonarroti I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo Buonarroti If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. Michelangelo Buonarroti Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Michelangelo Buonarroti Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend. Michelangelo Buonarroti If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo Buonarroti Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo Buonarroti The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michelangelo Buonarroti Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo Buonarroti 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 Buonarroti
