Create Yours

Top 120 Michelangelo Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 3 of 3

Michelangelo Quote: “What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.”

101. “What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen...”

102. “It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen...”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “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.”

103. “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

Michelangelo Quote: “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?”

104. “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

Michelangelo Quote: “I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.”

105. “I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?”

106. “Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.”

107. “The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.”

108. “An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.”

109. “The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.”

110. “It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.”

111. “Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.”

112. “Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.”

113. “However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “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.”

114. “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

Michelangelo Quote: “Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.”

115. “Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.”

116. “If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art – perfection.”

117. “A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art – perfection.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “Can’t you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him.”

118. “Can’t you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.”

119. “True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness – these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.”

120. “Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness – these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.”

— Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quote: “The 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.”

121. “The 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

Michelangelo Quote: “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.”

122. “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

Michelangelo Quote: “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.”

123. “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

Patience Quotes

Patience Quotes

Learning Quotes

Learning Quotes

Short Quotes About Life

Short Quotes About Life

Empowering Quotes

Empowering Quotes

Short Positive Quotes

Short Positive Quotes

PREV 1 2 3 NEXT

Patience Quotes

Patience Quotes

LIFE GOALS PATIENCE

Learning Quotes

Learning Quotes

Short Quotes About Life

Short Quotes About Life

Empowering Quotes

Empowering Quotes

Short Positive Quotes

Short Positive Quotes

Powerful Motivational Quotes

Powerful Motivational Quotes

Meaningful Quotes

Meaningful Quotes

Life Lessons Quotes

Life Lessons Quotes

Excellence Quotes

Excellence Quotes

Pablo Picasso Quotes

Pablo Picasso Quotes

ART LIFE PAINTING

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 120 Michelangelo Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.