01c. 1519 ADAs when, O lady mine! With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould. The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.Michelangelo / quote ↗
03c. 1519 ADI saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.Michelangelo / quote ↗
05c. 1519 ADWhen they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."Michelangelo / quote ↗
07c. 1519 ADI saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.Michelangelo / quote ↗
10c. 1519 ADMany 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 / quote ↗
13c. 1519 ADMy soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.Michelangelo / quote ↗
14c. 1519 ADIf we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.Michelangelo / quote ↗
16c. 1519 ADThe best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.Michelangelo / quote ↗
17c. 1519 ADI 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1519 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
20c. 1519 ADEvery beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.Michelangelo / quote ↗
21c. 1519 ADEvery block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.Michelangelo / quote ↗
24c. 1519 ADThe marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.Michelangelo / quote ↗
