Artist quotes

"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."
(Michelangelo)

"My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support
The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy
And my brush as it drips continually
Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor."
(Michelangelo)

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."
(Michelangelo)

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have."
(Leonardo da Vinci)

"A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night."
(Leonardo da Vinci)