Michelangelo Quotes

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection.

Michelangelo

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• I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Over

• The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • World
  • Rest
  • Artist

• I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Partner
  • Bridge

• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Done
  • Single
  • Artist

• I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Think
  • You
  • Artist

• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Thought

• You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Success
  • Perfection
  • Esteem

• Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Artist
  • Rights
  • Manager

• Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Artist
  • Favorite
  • Gucci

• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Wrong

• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Together
  • Perfection
  • Exist

• The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Musicians

• Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

  

  Kaskade
  • Interesting
  • Artist
  • More

• I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up
  • Artist

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Good
  • Artist
  • End

• The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Artist

• The real world with its common logic pushes us toward catastrophe. The artists seek in his work to free himself from this weight. Art is being transformed into politics, love into trade, education into an apparatus for stifling the mind. In the midst of such horrors, clearly only the dream within me has life. But how do other people live? -There is color, virginal expression - new, without a cage, without routine, without limit, a bath of sun and light. We must realize that nothing man does is of any value. The trouble is that people want to be paid. Only sick men can be artists. Their suffering pushes them into the accomplishment of deeds which reinvest the world with meaning. The sensitive man or the artist can only be a sick man in our civilized life, so full of lies. To think of art as a profession, how appealing! – Painting is man in the face of his downfall.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Education
  • Artist
  • Politics

• I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Rain
  • Lucky

• A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Artist
  • Perfection
  • Impatience