Michelangelo Quotes - Page 2

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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Critique by creating.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Creating, Critique

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• Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

  Michelangelo

  Faith, Encouragement, Art

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• Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

  Michelangelo

  Shining, Purpose, Elements

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

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• Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Challenges, Constraints

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• The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

  Michelangelo

  Men, Missing, Risk

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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

  Artist, Hands, Remembrance

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• If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Mastery, Genius

  As quoted in "Speeches & Presentations Unzipped" by Lori Rozakis, (p. 71), 2007.

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  Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

  Michelangelo

  Sculpture, Painting, Made

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

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• I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

  Michelangelo

  God Love, Christianity

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• Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

  Michelangelo

  Lord, Please, I Can

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• Genius is eternal patience.

  Michelangelo

  Positive, Patience, Art

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

  Michelangelo

  Art, Jealous, Men

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• To touch is to give life.

  Michelangelo

  Giving

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• Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

  Michelangelo

  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

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

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  Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

  Michelangelo

  Chaste, Knows, Do You Know

  Kirsten Bradbury, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2001). “Essential Michelangelo”

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• As you give out, so shall you receive.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Giving

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• Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

  Michelangelo

  Travel, Glory, Lord

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• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Beauty, Heaven

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• What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

  Michelangelo

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Shoes

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• The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

  Michelangelo

  Block, Inspiration, Sculpture

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

  Michelangelo

  Life, Success, Leadership

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• 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.

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  Years, Worry, Honor

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

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

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• Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.

  Michelangelo

  Pride, Order, People

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