When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David. Michelangelo More Quotes by Michelangelo More Quotes From Michelangelo The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. Michelangelo sublime power heart 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 eye inspiration art Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts. Michelangelo males divine artist I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. Michelangelo men order art If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me. Michelangelo inspiration fire wind And still I am learning. Michelangelo stills To touch is to give life. Michelangelo giving Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there. Michelangelo soul sight heaven An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. Michelangelo eye artist hands Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed. Michelangelo target entrepreneur might Art is a shadow of Divine perfection. Michelangelo shadow perfection art The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do. Michelangelo goal sight people How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement. Michelangelo movement color looks I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent. Michelangelo eccentric talent artist Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. Michelangelo hope birthday believe True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. Michelangelo religious mind art So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God. Michelangelo kings spring art Patience is eternal genius Michelangelo eternal genius inspiration Critique by creating. Michelangelo critique creating inspiration The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art. Michelangelo drawing hands art
