Michelangelo Buonarroti

"To arrive at the divine perfection one must know how to divest oneself of corruptions."

"The touch of human hand upon the marble reveals the divine."

"Beauty lies not in the face, but in the structure that supports it."

"I say to my students that the creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

"Rome was not built in a day, nor was anything worthwhile."

"The final masterpiece is the work created through the mind, the hand, and the soul."

"I have offended God and mankind because my work wasn't good enough."

"The divine is everywhere if we know how to look for it."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"The greatness of a man is measured by what he leaves behind."

"Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were."

"What spirits are those which are enslaved by matter and quiet down there in the mud?"

"Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered territory."

"There is still a chance to change the course we are on."

"I will always keep pressing forward in my pursuits of knowledge."

"The beauty of life is that it is always within reach."

"To criticize and correct are two very different things."

"A true artist does not create to make money."

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men."

"Every attempt to employ mathematics in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry."

"No great thing is created suddenly anymore than a bunch of grapes or a fig."

"The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need."

"Beauty is not in the things, but in how you look at them."

"Michelangelo says no detail is too small to be overlooked."

"The greatest dangers have the least shadows."

"My object is to carve the soul of the stone."

"Drawing is the poetry of expression through the hand."

"Every form of genius is the expansion of youth."

"I have no fear of any man, save God alone."