Michelangelo Quotes
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
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I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
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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.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.
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Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
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I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.
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One paints with one's head, not one's hand.
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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.
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Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
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With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
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If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
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How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.
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Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
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I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.