Michelangelo

The love of God is not a thing that can be bought or sold, but a gift that is freely given.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is toiling in the service of God.

The divine beauty of the human form is a reflection of the divine beauty of God.

I am not a painter, but a sculptor.

The more one sees, the more one knows; the more one knows, the more one loves.

The hand that works, works for the soul.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the intellect can discover it.

My joy in the work is so great that I forget all else.

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

The mind is the chisel.

I am a man of God, and I serve God with my art.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

The artist is the interpreter of nature.

I have no time for small things.

The soul is the form of the body.

My soul is in the work.

The world is a prison for the soul.

I am a man who has always been alone.