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
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
– Michelangelo
Genius is eternal patience.
– 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
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
– Michelangelo
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
– Michelangelo
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
– Michelangelo
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
– Michelangelo
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
– Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
– Michelangelo
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.
– Michelangelo
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
– 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
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
– Michelangelo