62 result(s) for Michelangelo Quotes.
"The greatest 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."
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
"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."
"To touch can be to give life."
"Your greatness is measured by your horizons."
"As still as I can, I go to the sea, to breathe the sea, to watch the waves so immense."
"Every beauty which is seen here on earth by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
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"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."
"Ugly things become beautiful if they are loved. Beautiful things become ugly if they are not."
"Ancora imparo (I am still learning)."
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not cover within itself."
"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."
"Draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time."
"Lord, make me see thy glory in every place."
"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring to make himself rich."
"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."
"In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it."
"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."
"I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
"The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass."
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
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"The best artist has no concept which a single piece of marble does not contain within itself."
"The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows."
"The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being."
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all."
"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."
"If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius."
"I live anew."
"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
"Art lives when one has nothing to say."
"To touch is to give life."
"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."
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
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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."
"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand."
"I am easily satisfied with the very best."
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain within itself."
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."
"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint."
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
"I am still learning."
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
"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."
"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."
"I criticize by creation, not by finding fault."
"Genius is eternal patience."
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
"The true work of art is but a shadow of divine perfection."
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
"I live and love in God's peculiar light."
"Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving."
"Trifles make perfections, and perfection is no trifle."
"I begin to think that it is the beginning of a work that is the most difficult part of it."
"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all."
"Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man."
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."
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