Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
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
Men
Weary
Life
Recognize
Figures
Four
Friends
Felt
Jeremiah
Become
Sized
Years
Tortured
More quotes by Michelangelo
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
Michelangelo
Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
Michelangelo
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo
To touch is to give life.
Michelangelo
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
Michelangelo
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
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.
Michelangelo
Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend
Michelangelo
I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Michelangelo
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
Michelangelo
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
Michelangelo
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
Michelangelo
Critique by creating.
Michelangelo
I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
Michelangelo
I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
Michelangelo
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.
Michelangelo
