Michelangelo

“The anecdote is also described in William Stanyon, Bible Stories & Parables, with a Lesson On, What is Religion? (1884), p. 18 but is only attributed to "a sculptor" and not to Michelangelo specifically.”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Widely attributed but of uncertain provenance. The anecdote of Michelangelo "seeing the angel" is related in Ambition: A Journal of Inspiration to Self Help (January 1916), Volume 11 Issue 1; and in Walter Clemow Lanyon , London Notes and Lectures (1928), p. 13.”

“Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”

“Translation: That fount of mercy, whence we all exist, Every beauty seen here [on earth] resembles, More than anything else to knowing persons; Translated by Luciano Rebay, Invitation to Italian Poetry (1969), p. 77”

“Veggio nel tuo bel viso, Signor mio”

“As when, O lady mine, With chiseled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mold, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows. Sonnet addressed to Vittoria Colonna ; tr. Mrs. Henry Roscoe (Maria Fletcher Roscoe), Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems (1868), p. 169.”

“I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop. As quoted in In Our Time : The Artist , BBC Radio 4 (28 March 2002).”

“As quoted in Character Sketches: Or, The Blackboard Mirror (1890) by George Augustus Lofton , p. 432.”

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Letter to Rene Lui Descartes XIV”

“the quill cannot express good will.”