Michelangelo Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

• A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Pain, Inspiration

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1913). “Michelangelo: A Record of His Life as Told in His Own Letters and Papers”

• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

• Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Block, Inspiration

• Genius is eternal patience.

  Michelangelo

  Positive, Patience, Art

• It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Inspiration, Eye

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pavel Preiss (1982). “Michelangelo: drawings”

• 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

  Art, Attitude, Wall

• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

  Michelangelo

  Education, Teacher, Art

• Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Success, Leadership

• If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

• A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

  Michelangelo

  Art, Perfection, Overcoming

• A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

  Michelangelo

  Beautiful, Art, Pain

• Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

  Michelangelo

  Faith, Encouragement, Art

• If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Team, People

• A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Sculpture, Hills

• Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

  Michelangelo

  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

  "Character Sketches : Or, The Blackboard Mirror" by George Augustus Lofton, (p. 432), 1890.

• Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Famous Inspirational, Glory

• I live and love in God's peculiar light.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Religious, Art

• I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Men, Order

• Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Drawing, Treasure

  Georgia Illetschko, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2004). “I, Michelangelo”, Prestel Pub

• Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Challenges, Constraints

• True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

  Michelangelo

  Religious, Art, Mind

• Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Jealous, Men

• The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Drawing, Hands

• I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Children, Wife

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