Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
MichelangeloIt is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
MichelangeloSo now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
MichelangeloIf I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.
Michelangelo