Michelangelo Quotes - Page 6

• It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

  Miguel Ángel

  Artist, Hands, Sculpture

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• Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
  A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
  And death was safety and great joy to find;
  But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

  Miguel Ángel

  Wings, Feet, Safety

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella (1878). “The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella”

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• After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

  Miguel Ángel

  Men, Years, Four

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• 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.

  Miguel Ángel

  Artist, Evil, Heaven

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• Si amo en ti, amado, sólo lo que más amas, no te enojes, pues así se enamora un espíritu de otro.

  Miguel Ángel

  Love, Spirit, Thee

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• 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.

  Miguel Ángel

  Stress, Mind, Sculpture

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• I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

  Miguel Ángel

  Pressure, Paint, Under Pressure

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• Si hay algo bueno en mí, es porque nací en la sutil atmósfera de vuestro país de Arezzo. Junto con la leche de mi nodriza recibí la destreza de manejar el cincel y el martillo, con los que hago mis figuras.

  Miguel Ángel

  Country, Nurse, Atmosphere

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• Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved

  Miguel Ángel

  Christian, Climbing, Engineering

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• The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

  Miguel Ángel

  Artist, Hands, Sculpture

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• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

  Miguel Ángel

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, E. H. Ramsden (1963). “The Letters of Michelangelo”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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• Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

  Miguel Ángel

  Pain, Inspiration, Sleep

  Michelangelo (2017). “Sonnets of Michelangelo”, p.78, Routledge

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• In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

  Miguel Ángel

  Relief, Opinion, Painting

  Quoted in Robert J Clements (ed) Michelangelo: A Self-Portrait (1968).

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• There is no tongue to speak his eulogy;
  Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes:
  Far easier to condemn his injurers,
  Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth.
  He to the realms of sinfulness came down,
  To teach mankind; ascending then to God,
  Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates,
  To whom his country hers refused to ope.
  Ungrateful land, to its own injury
  Nurse of his fate! Well too does this instruct,
  That greatest ills fall to the perfectest.
  And 'midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice,
  That, as his exile had no parallel,
  So never was there man more great than he.

  Miguel Ángel

  Country, Fall, Eye

  "Michael Angelo, considered as a philosophic poet".

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• A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

  Miguel Ángel

  Art, Sculpture, Hills

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• From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

  Miguel Ángel

  Pain, Inspiration, Delight

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1960). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”

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• Siempre que un gran pintor... hace una obra que parece falsa y mentirosa, esa falsedad es muy cierta.

  Miguel Ángel

  Lying, Doe, Very True

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• Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

  Miguel Ángel

  Inspiration, Fire, Ashes

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• A veces me pongo a pensar e imaginar que no encuentro entre los hombres más que un solo arte o ciencia, y es el dibujo o la pintura, siendo todos los demás miembros procedentes de ella.

  Miguel Ángel

  Arte, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

  Miguel Ángel

  Inspiration, Sculpture, Stones

  Michelangelo's sonnet addressed to Vittoria Colonna as quoted in Mrs. Henry Roscoe "Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems" (p. 169), 1868.

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• The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

  Miguel Ángel

  Block, Artist, Hands

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• My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor.

  Miguel Ángel

  Support, Heaven, Beard

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• The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

  Miguel Ángel

  Artist, Hands, Brain

  John Addington Symonds, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2002). “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence”, p.110, University of Pennsylvania Press

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