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There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
Michelangelo -
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
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Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
Michelangelo -
Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.
Michelangelo -
Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
Michelangelo -
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo -
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
Michelangelo -
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
Michelangelo
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo -
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo -
No great work of art is ever finished.
Michelangelo -
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
Michelangelo -
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.
Michelangelo -
No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
Michelangelo
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The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo -
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
Michelangelo -
Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle.
Michelangelo -
Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!
Michelangelo -
Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
Michelangelo -
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
Michelangelo
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Patience is eternal genius.
Michelangelo -
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
Michelangelo -
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo -
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.
Michelangelo