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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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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Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
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.
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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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
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However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
Michelangelo
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
Michelangelo
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Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.
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
