Michelangelo Quotes About Painting

• Un hombre pinta con el cerebro y no con las manos.

  Miguel Ángel

  Arte, Dolor, Inspiración

  Miguel Ángel Buonarroti (1913). "Miguel Ángel: Un registro de su vida contada en sus propias cartas y papeles"

• 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.

  Miguel Ángel

  Religious, Perfect, Soul

• Los pintores no son en modo alguno insociables por orgullo, sino porque encuentran pocas ocupaciones iguales a la pintura, o para no corromperse con la inútil conversación de la gente ociosa, y degradar el intelecto de las elevadas imaginaciones en las que siempre están absortos.

  Miguel Ángel

  Orgullo, Orden, Gente

• Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.

  Miguel Ángel

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Perfection

• The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

  Miguel Ángel

  Arte, Dibujo, Manos

• Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

  Miguel Ángel

  Art, Looks, Sculpture

• La escultura se hace quitando, mientras que la pintura se hace añadiendo.

  Miguel Ángel

  Escultura, Pintura, Made

  Georgia Illetschko, Miguel Ángel Buonarroti (2004). "Yo, Miguel Ángel", Prestel Pub

• No basta con ser un gran maestro en pintura y muy sabio, sino que creo que es necesario que el pintor sea muy moral en su modo de vida, o incluso, si tal cosa fuera posible, un santo, para que el Espíritu Santo inspire su intelecto.

  Miguel Ángel

  Wise, Thinking, Inspire

• A veces me pongo a pensar e imaginar que no encuentro entre los hombres más que un solo arte o ciencia, y es el dibujo o la pintura, siendo todos los demás miembros procedentes de ella.

  Miguel Ángel

  Arte, Hombres, Pensamiento

• What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

  Miguel Ángel

  Struggle, Sweat, Deception

• It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.

  Miguel Ángel

  Eye, Relaxation, Desire

• In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

  Miguel Ángel

  Relief, Opinion, Painting

  Quoted in Robert J Clements (ed) Michelangelo: A Self-Portrait (1968).

• Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.

  Miguel Ángel

  Stress, Mind, Sculpture

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