Michelangelo Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

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

  Michelangelo

  Art, Perfection, Overcoming

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• He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

  Michelangelo

  Beauty, Principles, Doe

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• I am always learning.

  Michelangelo

  Always Learning

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• Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Love Is

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

  Michelangelo

  Art, Team, People

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• The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

  Michelangelo

  Perfect, Soul, Mind

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• Patience is eternal genius

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Genius, Eternal

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• The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Powerful, Lying

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• It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.

  Michelangelo

  Wise, Thinking, Inspire

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• I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

  Michelangelo

  Faults, Creation, Critics

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• So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

  Michelangelo

  Death, Numbers, Widows

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• What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

  Michelangelo

  Struggle, Sweat, Deception

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• Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

  Michelangelo

  Education, Artist, Perception Of Beauty

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• You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his.

  Michelangelo

  Falling In Love, Men, Giving

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• An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.

  Michelangelo

  Eye, Artist, Hands

  John Addington Symonds, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2002). “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence”, p.286, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Judging, Fool

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• Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

  Michelangelo

  Perfection, Trifles

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• Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Heart, Letters

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• Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

  Michelangelo

  Birthday, Hope, Believe

  Barbara A. Somervill, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2005). “Michelangelo: Sculptor and Painter”, p.80, Capstone

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• When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

  Michelangelo

  Looks, Stones, Easy

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• The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

  Michelangelo

  Happiness, Success, Hope

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• Genius is infinite painstaking.

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  Creativity, Innovation, Genius

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• With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Soul, Few Words

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