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
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
Michelangelo
“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
“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius. ”
Michelangelo
“Genius is eternal patience. ”
Michelangelo
“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
“The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.”
Michelangelo
“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
“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.”
Michelangelo
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection”
Michelangelo
“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”
Michelangelo
“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.”
Michelangelo
“Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,
While pain and guilt still linger here below,
Blindness and numbness–these please me alone;
Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.”
Michelangelo
“Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.”
Michelangelo
“Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.”
Michelangelo
“Critique by creating.”
Michelangelo
“I am still learning.”
Michelangelo
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
Michelangelo
“As you give out, so shall you receive.”
Michelangelo
“Patience is eternal genius”
Michelangelo
“O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,
with peace you force all the restless work to end;
those who exalt you see and understand,
and he is sound of mind who honours you.
You cut the thread of tired thoughts, for so
you offer calm in your moist shade; you send
to this low sphere the dreams where we ascend
up to the highest, where I long to go.
Shadow of death that brings to quiet close
all miseries that plague the heart and soul,
for those in pain the last and best of cures;
you heal the flesh of its infirmities,
dry and our tears and shut away our toil,
and free the good from wrath and fretting cares.”
Michelangelo
“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”
Michelangelo
“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
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.”
Michelangelo
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Michelangelo
“Why do you send Fools to judge my Work?”
Michelangelo
“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.”
Michelangelo
“I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.”
Michelangelo
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”
Michelangelo
“From such a gentle thing,from such a fountain of all delight,my every pain is born…”
Michelangelo
“Believe it or not, I can actually draw.”
Michelangelo
“Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire,
I was melted and burned, if now that it’s extinguished
outside me, it besets and consumes me inside,
and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?”
Michelangelo
“No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.”
Michelangelo
“You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire . . . The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps … I can hardly write without envy”.
Michelangelo
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Michelangelo
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
Michelangelo
“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
“As when, O lady mine,
With chiselled touch
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes,
The more the statue grows.”
Michelangelo
“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
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Michelangelo
“Genius is eternal patience”
Michelangelo
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