Michelangelo Quotes

Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.

Michelangelo

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• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Drawing

• 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

• For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Child

• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Perfection
  • Grave
  • Dull

• 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

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

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Together
  • Perfection
  • Exist

• It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Divine

• The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Will
  • Order
  • Divine

• Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Story
  • Perfection
  • Short

• People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Perfection
  • Definition

• I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Game
  • Know

• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Perfection

• Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Divine

• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • inspirational
  • Perfection
  • Excellence

• I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Perfection
  • Goodness
  • Blessings

• In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beauty
  • Unity
  • Perfection

• Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Perfection

• Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moral

• A lot of people still don't realize that, before Rascal Flatts, I was in a Christian band for four or five years, and I had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest pop musicians and producers in L.A. I learned a lot from Peter Wolf; he was one of my heroes growing up in the '80s. He was a producer of a lot legendary pop music.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Opportunity
  • Musicians
  • Heroes

• I came to rock at this party Cause I can make you feel alright Sweet boy, you're rocking your body I'll get you straight to the night Oh oh, you want this body Oh oh, you want it now Sweet boy, you're rocking your body Cause I'm gon make you mine tonight

  

  Christophe Le Friant
  • Night
  • Party
  • Rock

• Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Perfection
  • Divine
  • Art Is