Michelangelo Quotes
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo
Quotes to Explore
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Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
Michelangelo
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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?
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The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
Michelangelo
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Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.
Michelangelo
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Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
Michelangelo
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My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor.
Michelangelo
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The more the marble wastes,
The more the statue grows.
Michelangelo
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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo
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As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
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However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
Michelangelo
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.
Michelangelo
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo
