Michelangelo quotes

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
- Michelangelo

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
- Michelangelo

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
- Michelangelo

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
- Michelangelo

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
- Michelangelo

He who follows another will never overtake him.
- Michelangelo

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
- Michelangelo

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo

As you give out, so shall you receive.
- Michelangelo

Love is a beautiful image, imagined or seen within the heart; the friend of virtue and gentility.
- Michelangelo

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
- 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

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
- Michelangelo

Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
- Michelangelo

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
- Michelangelo

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
- Michelangelo

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
- Michelangelo

I couldn’t give you something mediocre even if that’s all you asked for.
- Michelangelo

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
- 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

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
- Michelangelo

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
- Michelangelo

No great work of art is ever finished.
- Michelangelo