Michelangelo Quotes

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Your lordship, only worldly light in this age of ours, you can never be pleased with another man's work for there is no man who resembles you, nor one to equal you … It grieves me greatly that I cannot recapture my past, so as to longer be at your service. As it is, I can only offer you my future, which is short, for I am too old … That is all I have to say. Read my heart for "the quill cannot express good will."

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.l

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

As when, O lady mine,The more the statue grows.