A
man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo |
Beauty
is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo |
Carving
is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo |
Do
you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than
those who are not?
Michelangelo
Explaining why the Virgin Mary in the Pietà
looks so young |
Genius
is eternal patience.
Michelangelo |
However
rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
Michelangelo
To his biographer Condivi |
I
already have a wife who is too much for me; she is my art, and
my works are my children.
Michelangelo
On why he hadn't married, quoted in his complete
poems and selected letters |
I
am still learning.
Michelangelo |
I
feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
Michelangelo |
I
live shut up here, like the doughy middle inside the bread crust,
poor and all alone, like a genie shut up inside a bottle.
Michelangelo
From a poem written by Michelangelo |