Quotes By Michelangelo

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

I am still learning.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

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

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

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.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

I 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.