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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo -
A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
Michelangelo
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If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
Michelangelo -
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Michelangelo -
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
Michelangelo -
Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?
Michelangelo -
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
Michelangelo -
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
Michelangelo
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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Michelangelo -
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.
Michelangelo -
After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
Michelangelo -
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
Michelangelo -
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
Michelangelo -
I am no artist - please come and help me.
Michelangelo
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He who follows another will never overtake him.
Michelangelo -
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo -
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
Michelangelo -
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo -
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.
Michelangelo -
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
Michelangelo
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The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo -
Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
Michelangelo -
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Michelangelo -
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.
Michelangelo