Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Michelangelo
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
Architect
Draftsperson
Engineer
General Contractor
Painter
Poet
Sculptor
Michelangelo Bonorotti
Michael Angelo Buonarotti
Miguel Angel
Michel Angel de Bonarrotta
Michelangelo Buonnaroti
Michelangelo Buonarrota
Michel Aniol
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Michelagniolo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni
Michelangiolo
Michelangiolo Buonaroti
Michiel Angelo buonarota
Buonaruota
Mic Angelo
Buonarhota
Michel
Standards
Approach
Effects
Approaches
Painting
Relief
Opinion
Proportion
Excellent
Considered
Effect
More quotes by Michelangelo
No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
Michelangelo
The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.
Michelangelo
Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
Michelangelo
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
Michelangelo
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Michelangelo
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
Michelangelo
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
Michelangelo
Patience is eternal genius
Michelangelo
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
Michelangelo
The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
Michelangelo
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
Michelangelo
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
Michelangelo
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
Michelangelo
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo
