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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 -
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
Michelangelo
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Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo -
Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved.
Michelangelo -
And still I am learning.
Michelangelo -
Critique by creating.
Michelangelo -
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo -
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
Michelangelo
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
Michelangelo -
You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his.
Michelangelo -
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
Michelangelo -
A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.
Michelangelo -
The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.
Michelangelo -
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
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Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.
Michelangelo -
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
Michelangelo -
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth. He to the realms of sinfulness came down, To teach mankind; ascending then to God, Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates, To whom his country hers refused to ope. Ungrateful land, to its own injury Nurse of his fate! Well too does this instruct, That greatest ills fall to the perfectest. And 'midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice, That, as his exile had no parallel, So never was there man more great than he.
Michelangelo -
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Michelangelo -
So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
Michelangelo -
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
Michelangelo
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An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
Michelangelo -
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.
Michelangelo -
Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him.
Michelangelo -
If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
Michelangelo