Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often g…

- Michael Ayrton

Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful…

- Michael Ayrton

About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors who…

- Michael Ayrton

The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sc…

- Michael Ayrton

Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter …

- Michael Ayrton