Michelangelo Quotes - Page 4

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• True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

  Michelangelo

  Religious, Art, Mind

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

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Soul, Few Words

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• Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.

  Michelangelo

  Death, Sweet, Fall

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• I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Men, Order

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• I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Eccentric, Talent

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• Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

  Michelangelo

  Sight, Heaven, Soul

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• 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”

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• Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.

  Michelangelo

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Perfection

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• I live and love in God's peculiar light.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Religious, Art

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• One paints with one's head, not one's hand.

  Michelangelo

  Hands, Paint

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• 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

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• A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

  Michelangelo

  Beautiful, Art, Pain

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

  Michelangelo

  Love, Inspiration, Men

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• 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”

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• Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

  Michelangelo

  Birthday, Hope, Believe

  Barbara A. Somervill, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2005). “Michelangelo: Sculptor and Painter”, p.80, Capstone

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• Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Drawing, Treasure

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

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

  Michelangelo

  Mean, Power, May

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• If the wine is not good, then throw it out!

  Michelangelo

  Wine, Ifs, Dissatisfaction

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• However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

  Michelangelo

  Men, May, Rich

  John Addington Symonds, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2002). “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence”, p.82, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend

  Michelangelo

  Wise, Heart, Men

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• If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Beautiful, Believe

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• Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Males, Divine

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• The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Artist, Form

  Sonnet 15 (translation by Elizabeth Jennings)

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• How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

  Michelangelo

  Color, Looks, Movement

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• And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

  Michelangelo

  Beauty, Men, Sheep

  Francisco de Hollanda, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1928). “Four dialogues on painting”, Hyperion Pr

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