Michelangelo Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Males, Divine

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• How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

  Michelangelo

  Color, Looks, Movement

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• Nature did all things well

  Michelangelo

  Nature, Environment, Wells

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1960). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”

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• The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Artist, Form

  Sonnet 15 (translation by Elizabeth Jennings)

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• Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

  Michelangelo

  Block, Angel, Trying

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• And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

  Michelangelo

  Beauty, Men, Sheep

  Francisco de Hollanda, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1928). “Four dialogues on painting”, Hyperion Pr

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• So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Kings, Spring

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• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

  Michelangelo

  Education, Teacher, Art

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• The more the marble wastes,
  The more the statue grows.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Sculpture, Waste

  "Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems" by Mrs. Henry Roscoe, (p. 169), 1868.

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• I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

  Michelangelo

  Jesus, Giving, Soul

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• Serene I fold my hands and wait.

  Michelangelo

  Hands, Waiting, Rave

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• I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Artist, Cities

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• Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Looks, Sculpture

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• No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Mastery, Ends

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• There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.

  Michelangelo

  Angel, Attention

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• The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

  Michelangelo

  Sight, People, Goal

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• The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

  Michelangelo

  Character, Needs, Taste

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• I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

  Michelangelo

  Wine, Funny Wine, Bread

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• I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

  Michelangelo

  Kind, Painter, Shops

  As quoted in "In Our Time : The Artist" (BBC Radio 4), March 28, 2002.

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• The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Doe, Marble

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• I am no artist - please come and help me.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Insecurity, Helping

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• Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Skins, Easy

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• Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

  Michelangelo

  Men, Laughing, Erring

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella (1878). “The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella”

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