Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. Michelangelo carveeasyskin Change image and share on social
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. Michelangelo confidepartphantom Change image and share on social
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michelangelo artdivineperfection Change image and share on social
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 beautifulblindclothe Change image and share on social
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. Michelangelo backbeautyday share on social
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 artextendgod Change image and share on social
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 compassexecuteeye Change image and share on social
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. Michelangelo depriveevilfree Change image and share on social
