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"40 Michelangelo Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 March 1475. Died: 18 February 1564 | Sculptor | Painter | Architect | Poet |

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Perfection Small thing Made
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Work Art Shadow Divine perfection
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Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

God Creates Copy
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No great work of art is ever finished.

Work Art Finished
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Man Paints Brains Hands
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Beauty Purgation Superfluities
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

Art Constraint Dies Freedom
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The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Idea Remove Excess
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Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

Art Jealous Whole Man
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Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.

Gazing Beautiful Acts Soul
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Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Greatness Measured Horizons
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I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

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

Soul Heaven Earth's Loveliness
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Death Love Good man Heaven
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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Faith Oneself Best Safest course
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I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

Serve Love God Hope
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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

True art Noble Religious Mind
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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.

Tragedy Life Achieve Goals
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I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Live Love God's Light
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Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

Gifts Values Passions Life
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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

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

Stone Statue Sculptor Discover
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Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

Lord Free Myself Please
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An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

Artist Work Think Create
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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Beauty Perception Source
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Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

Love Heart Friend Virtue
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

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

Pleased Life Death Master
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

Sculpture Painting Adding
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I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

Wife Art Works Children
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Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

Beauty Elements Purpose
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The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

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

Lord Desire Accomplish
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

Poets Painters Power Dare
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Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

Read Heart Letter Good intent
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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

Mastery End Art Life
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Success Imagination Kindness Wasted
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Thoughts Imagination Limits Possibilities
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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Hope Dreams Imagination Courage
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Music Soul Mind Imagination
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Michelangelo Quotes & Sayings