Lord free me of myself, so I can please you! Michelangelo More Quotes by Michelangelo More Quotes From Michelangelo 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. Michelangelo artist evil heaven The more the marble wastes, Michelangelo sculpture waste artist If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius. Michelangelo team people art Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him Michelangelo block angel trying Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo education teacher art Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent. Michelangelo inspiration letters heart A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. Michelangelo pain beautiful art If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another. Michelangelo thee spirit love I criticise by creation, not by finding fault. Michelangelo faults creation critics If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. Michelangelo life-and-love eye heart It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen. Michelangelo eye desire relaxation My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. Michelangelo beauty inspirational heaven Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. Michelangelo encouragement faith art The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. Michelangelo marble artist doe Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom. Michelangelo constraints challenges art I live and love in God's peculiar light. Michelangelo religious love art Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. Michelangelo sculpture looks art Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind. Michelangelo sculpture stress mind Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty. Michelangelo appreciate perfection appreciation The hand that follows intellect can achieve. Michelangelo achieve inspirational hands
