Michael Angelo Quotes

• The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Minorities, Popularity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ...”, p.174

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• I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

  Mark Twain

  Blessed, Yesterday, Tranquil

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.288

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• I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'The Innocents Abroad' (1869) ch. 27.

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• Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

  Phillips Brooks

  Shadow, Devotion, Used

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• The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Religious, Art, Men

  John Stuart Blackie (1858). “On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh”, p.104

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• It is such a comfort to nestle up to Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael when one is in trouble. He is such a grand tree. He has an understanding soul. After I talked with him and listened unto his voice, I slipped down out of his arms.

  Opal Whiteley

  Voice, Tree, Understanding

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• While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof,
  His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose
  How sinew that has been pulled tight,
  Or it may be loosened in repose,
  Can rule by supernatural right
  Yet be but sinew.

  William Butler Yeats

  Morning, Night, Body

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.82

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