Quotes by Michelangelo

“Your greatness is measured by your horizons.”

“Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.”

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

“Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.”

“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”

“For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.”

“He who follows another will never overtake him”

“Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.”

“I am still learning. (at age 87)”

“I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.”

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

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