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I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
Michelangelo -
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
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If the wine is not good, then throw it out!
Michelangelo -
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo -
As you give out, so shall you receive.
Michelangelo -
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
Michelangelo -
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
Michelangelo -
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
Michelangelo
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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Michelangelo -
If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.
Michelangelo -
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
Michelangelo -
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
Michelangelo -
Genius is infinite painstaking.
Michelangelo -
Nature did all things well.
Michelangelo
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If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
Michelangelo -
Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
Michelangelo -
Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.
Michelangelo -
I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.
Michelangelo -
To touch is to give life.
Michelangelo -
The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.
Michelangelo
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I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
Michelangelo -
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
Michelangelo -
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
Michelangelo -
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
Michelangelo