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Michelangelo Quotes
Italian
-
Artist
March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
Imagination
Angel
Free
Marble
Him
Carved
Saw
Set
Until
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
Wisdom
Aim
High
Us
Achieving
Danger
Falling
Greater
Lies
Low
Mark
Most
Our
Setting
Short
Too
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
Art
Man
Hands
Brains
His
Paints
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo
Art
Artist
Marble
Thought
Carved
Every
Form
Greatest
Hold
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Michelangelo
Time
Than
Wasted
Harm
Greater
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo
Imagination
Stone
Inside
Statue
Block
Discover
Every
Sculptor
Task
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
Work
Art
Shadow
Perfection
Divine
True
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Art
Perfection
Make
Trifle
Trifles
I am still learning.
Michelangelo
Learning
I Am
Still
Am
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo
Inspirational
May
Always
More
Accomplish
Desire
Grant
Lord
I Can
Than
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo
Beautiful
Pain
Never
See
Beautiful Thing
Does
Failing
Gives
Hear
Much
Thing
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Michelangelo
Love
Good
Death
Man
Wings
Bear
Good Man
Heaven
Two
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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
Best
Faith
Oneself
Course
Safest
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
Patience
Genius
Eternal
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo
Good
Painting
Like
Looks
Sculpture
Kind
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
Life
Art
God
Me
Am
Extend
Given
Little
Long
My Life
Order
Poor
Poor Man
Possible
Worth
I Am
Man
Who
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
Michelangelo
Alone
Live
Cannot
Paint
Pressures
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
Love
Beauty
Eyes
Me
Back
Day
End
Flame
Flood
Gladly
Had
Heart
How
Ignite
Light
One Day
Out
Put
Realized
Splendour
Sustaining
Torture
Which
Without
Would
Youth
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
Life
Death
Same
Master
Been
Hand
Pleased
Should
Since
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
Mind
White
Artist
Only
Block
Conception
Contain
Does
Greatest
Hand
Image
Marble
Mass
Obedient
Penetrate
Potentially
Single
Which
Within
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
Michelangelo
More
Statue
Marbles
Grows
Wastes
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Michelangelo
You
Despise
Known
Truly
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
Beautiful
Skin
Blind
More
Cannot
Clothed
Empty
Fact
Foot
Garment
Noble
Recognize
Shoe
Spirit
Which
Than
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Michelangelo
Love
God
Faith
Light
Live
Peculiar
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
Life
Myself
Good
Me
Am
Deprived
Evil
Free
Free Will
Given
Heaven
Live
Longer
My Life
My Own
Own
Sin
Which
I Am
Will
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
People
Hard
Wonderful
How
Get
Knew
Mastery
Seem
Worked
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
Eyes
Hands
Eye
Compass
Execute
Hand
Judges
Keep
Necessary
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
Love
Hope
Work
God
Age
Been
Believe
Give
Him
Many
Old
Old Age
Out
Put
Spite
Up
Want
Work Out
I Believe
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo
Nature
Soul
Earth
Heaven
My Soul
Find
Loveliness
Staircase
Through
Unless
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo
You
Go
Stop
Skin
Carving
Down
Easy
Just
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
Michelangelo
You
Divine
Even
Disdain
Male
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
Me
Only
Well
Hand
Chisel
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo
Love
Nature
Never
Salvation
Above
Cities
Felt
I Love
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo
Pain
Born
Gentle
Fountain
Delight
Every
Thing
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Michelangelo
Best
Alone
Marble
Within
Artists
Conception
Contain
Does
Itself
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
Beauty
More
Perception
Anything
Anything Else
Celestial
Come
Else
Every
Here
More Than Anything
Persons
Resembles
Seen
Source
Which
Than
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
Best
Alone
Free
Stone
Artist
Break
Contained
Figures
Hand
Marble
Sculptor
Shell
Spell
Thought
Which
Within
Only
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
Best
World
Value
Self
Become
Confide
Course
Most
Part
Phantoms
Promises
Safest
Something
Vain
Worth
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