Top Michelangelo Quotes

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, Give me masturbation or give me death. Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, To the lonely it is company; to the forsaken it is a friend;...

People are creators. But I doubt that many realize this. We are not meant to go out into the world and find flawless things, we are not meant to sit down and have flawless things fall into our laps. B...

You said how Michelangelo was a manic-depressive who portrayed himself as a flayed martyr in his painting. Henri Matisse gave up being a lawyer because of appendicitis. Robert Schumann only began comp...

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]