An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
We…believe that art is religious, because it is one of man’s highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
It’s freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?””Indignation,” said Michelangelo. “Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.
He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.
From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born?
Bleed me of art, and there won’t be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]
Art is a staple like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man’s spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.