Michelangelo

The greatest joy is to be able to create.

The artist's hand is but an instrument of the divine will.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The human body is a temple of the soul.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The mind is a powerful thing. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of despair or lift us to the heights of ecstasy.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The highest beauty is always the most difficult to achieve.

The more perfect the work, the more it seems to have been made by chance.

The light of God is in every soul.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The soul is not born; it does not die. It was never created and will never cease to be.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

The artist is a channel for the divine.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

The love of God is not a love of the senses, but of the intellect.

To suffer is to be near God.

I am a painter, but I am also a sculptor, and I have always been a sculptor.

The hand that works, the mind that thinks, the heart that feels, these three are one in the artist.