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.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.