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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”

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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.

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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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Critique by creating.

Michelangelo

Inspiration, Creating, Critique

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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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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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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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Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.

Michelangelo

Beautiful, Soul, Gazing

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

Michelangelo

Lord, Please, I Can

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

Michelangelo

Art, Jealous, Men

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

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Sculpture, Painting, Made

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

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Genius is eternal patience.

Michelangelo

Positive, Patience, Art

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

Michelangelo

Inspirational, Beauty, Heaven

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Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

Michelangelo

Travel, Glory, Lord

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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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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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Born: March 6, 1475
Died: February 18, 1564
Occupation: Sculptor
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