Michelangelo Quotes

Best Quotes by Michelangelo (Top 10)

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
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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 people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo
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.
Michelangelo
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
Michelangelo
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
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.
Michelangelo

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.
Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
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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?
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When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
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Genius is eternal patience.
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And still I am learning.
Michelangelo
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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