Michelangelo Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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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.

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  Artist, Hands, Remembrance

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• Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

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  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

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

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• I am still learning. (at age 87)

  Michelangelo

  Age, Stills

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• I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.

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  Giving, Mediocre, Ifs

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• Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.

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  Beautiful, Soul, Gazing

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• Genius is eternal patience.

  Michelangelo

  Positive, Patience, Art

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  Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

  Michelangelo

  Chaste, Knows, Do You Know

  Kirsten Bradbury, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2001). “Essential Michelangelo”

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• Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

  Michelangelo

  Travel, Glory, Lord

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• Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

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  Faith, Encouragement, Art

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• Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.

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  Pride, Order, People

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• Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

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  Art, Jealous, Men

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• I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

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  God Love, Christianity

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• To touch is to give life.

  Michelangelo

  Giving

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• As you give out, so shall you receive.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Giving

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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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  Beautiful, Inspiration, Shoes

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• The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

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  Perfect, Soul, Mind

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

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  Life, Success, Leadership

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

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

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

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  Beautiful, Heart, Love Is

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• The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

  Michelangelo

  Men, Missing, Risk

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• A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

  Michelangelo

  Art, Perfection, Overcoming

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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.

  Michelangelo

  Shining, Purpose, Elements

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

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• Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Challenges, Constraints

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• An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.

  Michelangelo

  Eye, Artist, Hands

  John Addington Symonds, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2002). “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence”, p.286, University of Pennsylvania Press

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