Michelangelo Quotes

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Michelangelo

Profession : Artist

Birth : March 6, 1475

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Michelangelo

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Michelangelo

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Michelangelo

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

Michelangelo

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

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.

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

Michelangelo

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Michelangelo

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

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I am still learning.

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Genius is eternal patience.

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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

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo

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

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

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