Michelangelo Quotes About Inspiration

Quotes about: Inspiration

• 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”

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

  Michelangelo

  Art, Block, Inspiration

• Genius is eternal patience.

  Michelangelo

  Positive, Patience, Art

• 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

  Art, Inspiration, Eye

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pavel Preiss (1982). “Michelangelo: drawings”

• 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.

• 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

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Shoes

• Patience is eternal genius

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Genius, Eternal

• As you give out, so shall you receive.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Giving

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

  Michelangelo

  Love, Inspiration, Men

• Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Waste, Wasting Time

  Hugo Chapman, Perrin Stein, Michelangelo Buonarroti, British Museum (2005). “Michelangelo drawings: closer to the master”

• 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

  Block, Inspiration, Sculpture

• Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

  Michelangelo

  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

  "Character Sketches : Or, The Blackboard Mirror" by George Augustus Lofton, (p. 432), 1890.

• Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Judging, Fool

• Critique by creating.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Creating, Critique

• No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Doe, Bears

• 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

  Inspiration, Sculpture, Stones

  Michelangelo's sonnet addressed to Vittoria Colonna as quoted in Mrs. Henry Roscoe "Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems" (p. 169), 1868.

• 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

  Inspiration, Fire, Wind

  Michelangelo (2000). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

• With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Soul, Few Words

• 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

  Pain, Inspiration, Sleep

  Michelangelo (2017). “Sonnets of Michelangelo”, p.78, Routledge

• Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Heart, Letters

• 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

  Art, Kings, Spring

• From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

  Michelangelo

  Pain, Inspiration, Delight

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1960). “The Complete Poems of 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

  Inspiration, Fire, Ashes

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