Michelangelo Quotes

It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.

Michelangelo

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• Intellect
• Painter
• Holy Spirit
• Great Master

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• I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.

  

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• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  

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• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  

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• I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

  

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• Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.

  

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• It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

  

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• The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

  

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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  

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• I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.

  

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• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

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• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

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• Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.

  

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• Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

  

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• Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

  

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• Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,And Swift expires, a driv'ler and a show.

  

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• It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from ‘the wise man’s mouth’ but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.

  

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• The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.

  

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• Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.

  

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• I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

  

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• Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.

  

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• People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

  

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• It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Wise
  • Intellect
  • Painter