Michelangelo Michelangelo

Quote: 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 Michelangelo]

Quote: Everything hurts. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: 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 that the garment with which it is clothed? [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: Genius is eternal patience. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: 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 Michelangelo]

Quote: The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

Quote: I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. [Michelangelo Michelangelo]

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