Michelangelo Quotes - Page 4

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• The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Hands, Achieve

  c.1538 Quoted in Robert J Clements (ed) Michelangelo: A Self- Portrait (1968).

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• Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

  Michelangelo

  Spiritual, Religious, War

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• 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

  Death, Sweet, Fall

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• I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Eccentric, Talent

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

  Michelangelo

  Beautiful, Art, Pain

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• Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

  Michelangelo

  Sight, Heaven, Soul

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• 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”

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

  Michelangelo

  Religious, Art, Mind

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• Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Inspiration, Men

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• 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

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• Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.

  Michelangelo

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Perfection

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• One paints with one's head, not one's hand.

  Michelangelo

  Hands, Paint

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• If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Fire, Wind

  Michelangelo (2000). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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

  Michelangelo

  Love, Religious, Art

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• Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Waste, Wasting Time

  Hugo Chapman, Perrin Stein, Michelangelo Buonarroti, British Museum (2005). “Michelangelo drawings: closer to the master”

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• If the wine is not good, then throw it out!

  Michelangelo

  Wine, Ifs, Dissatisfaction

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• 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

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• However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

  Michelangelo

  Men, May, Rich

  John Addington Symonds, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2002). “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence”, p.82, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Beautiful, Believe

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• Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

  Michelangelo

  Mean, Power, May

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• A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.

  Michelangelo

  Sculpture

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• Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend

  Michelangelo

  Wise, Heart, Men

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• It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.

  Michelangelo

  Eye, Relaxation, Desire

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• No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Doe, Bears

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• And still I am learning.

  Michelangelo

  Stills

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