Michelangelo Quotes

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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

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

Michelangelo

Life, Art, Creativity

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I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.

Michelangelo

Mind, Vision

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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.

Michelangelo

Inspirational Life, Lying, Passion

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

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Perfection, Mastery, Made

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Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

Michelangelo

Copying, Copies

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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.

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Art, Attitude, Wall

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To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

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Way, Love Each Other, Best Way

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

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Ideas, Excess, Stones

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Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

Michelangelo

Entrepreneur, Target, Might

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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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Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

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No great work of art is ever finished.

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Art, Great Work, Finished

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Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

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Greatness, Horizon

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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

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Christianity, Abandon

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Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.

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Art, Perfection, Shadow

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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.

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Art, Famous Inspirational, Glory

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

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Art, Block, Inspiration

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For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

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Religious, Perfect, Soul

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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.

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Artist, Thinking, Difficult Work

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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

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Artist, Wasted Time, Harm

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If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Michelangelo

Inspirational, Mastery, Genius

As quoted in "Speeches & Presentations Unzipped" by Lori Rozakis, (p. 71), 2007.

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo

Art, Pain, Inspiration

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1913). “Michelangelo: A Record of His Life as Told in His Own Letters and Papers”

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Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

Michelangelo

Lord, Please, I Can

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He who follows another will never overtake him

Michelangelo

Inspirational

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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

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Sculpture, Painting, Made

Georgia Illetschko, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2004). “I, Michelangelo”, Prestel Pub

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Born: March 6, 1475
Died: February 18, 1564
Occupation: Sculptor
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