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Michelangelo
Italian
Artist
About the author
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Thought
#Artist
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Want
#Love
#God
#Hope
#Work
#Old
#Age
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#May
#Desire
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Danger
#Lies
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Eye
#Eyes
#Judges
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Work
#Art
#Perfection
#Shadow
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Life
#Death
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#People
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Mind
#Artist
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Thought
#Artist
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#World
#Self
#Value
#Worth
#Promises
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Time
#Harm
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Perfection
#Trifles
#Trifle
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Spirit
#Fact
#Blind
#Skin
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Love
#Day
#Heart
#End
#Youth
#Light
#Eyes
#Beauty
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Earth
#Soul
#Heaven
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Artists
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Pain
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Man
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Love
#Death
#Man
#Heaven
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Beauty
#Perception
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Faith
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Pain
#Delight
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Patience
#Genius
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Painting
#Sculpture
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Life
#Evil
#Free will
#Sin
#Heaven
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Life
#God
#Art
#Man
#Poor
#Worth
#Order
I am still learning.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Learning
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Love
#God
#Light
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Skin
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Love
#Nature
#Cities
#Salvation
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo,
Italian
Artist
#Hope
#May
#Desire