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I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
Michelangelo -
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
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Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
Michelangelo -
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.
Michelangelo -
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.
Michelangelo -
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?
Michelangelo -
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection.
Michelangelo -
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
Michelangelo
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo -
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.
Michelangelo -
Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.
Michelangelo -
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
Michelangelo -
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
Michelangelo -
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.
Michelangelo
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Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.
Michelangelo -
I am always learning.
Michelangelo -
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo -
With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
Michelangelo -
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
Michelangelo -
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
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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.
Michelangelo -
One paints with one's head, not one's hand.
Michelangelo -
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo -
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.
Michelangelo