Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo

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

Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

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

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
Michelangelo

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.
Michelangelo

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Michelangelo

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

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo

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

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
Michelangelo

I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Michelangelo

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Michelangelo

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
Michelangelo

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

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