“Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.” ― Michelangelo
“I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.” ― Michelangelo
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.” ― Michelangelo
“Genius is eternal patience.” ― Michelangelo
“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
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.” ― Michelangelo
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” ― Michelangelo
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” ― Michelangelo
“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.” ― Michelangelo
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” ― Michelangelo
“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.” ― Michelangelo
“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” ― Michelangelo
“The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.” ― Michelangelo
“Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.” ― 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
“I am still learning.” ― Michelangelo
“It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.” ― Michelangelo
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” ― Michelangelo
“A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.” ― Michelangelo
“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.” ― Michelangelo
“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
“A man paints with his brain and not with his hands.” ― Michelangelo
“The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.” ― Michelangelo
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” ― Michelangelo
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” ― Michelangelo
“I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.” ― Michelangelo
“Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.” ― Michelangelo
“Your greatness is measured by your horizons.” ― Michelangelo
“The hand that follows intellect can achieve.” ― Michelangelo
“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” ― Michelangelo
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” ― Michelangelo
