What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Meaning of the quote
This quote suggests that the things you dislike or hate about others can actually reveal a lot about your own character and values. What you choose to criticize in others often reflects your own insecurities or biases. Instead of focusing on what you don't like in others, this quote encourages you to look inward and understand what that says about you. By being honest about your dislikes, you can learn more about yourself and grow as a person.
About Michelangelo
Michelangelo, the renowned Italian Renaissance artist, was a master of sculpture, painting, architecture, and poetry. He created some of the most iconic artworks in history, including the Pietà , David, and the Sistine Chapel ceiling, cementing his legacy as a true Renaissance man.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Genius is eternal patience.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
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.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
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.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
I am still learning.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
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.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Even if you are divine, you don’t disdain male consorts.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
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?
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
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.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
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.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
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.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
I live and love in God’s peculiar light.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
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.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
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.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
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.
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)