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Michelangelo

Birthday: March 06, 1475
Deathday: March 18, 1564
Category: Italian Artist
Type: Artist
National: Italian

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

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin...

Death and love are the two wings that bear the...

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

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception...

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and...

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course....

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of...

Genius is eternal patience....

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture....

I am a poor man and of little worth, who...

I am still learning....

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint....

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities...

I hope that I may always desire more than I...

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

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no...

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until...

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining...

If people knew how hard I worked to get my...

If we have been pleased with life, we should not...

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes...

It is well with me only when I have a...

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I...

Many believe - and I believe - that I have...

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it...

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained...

The best of artists has no conception that the marble...

The greater danger for most of us lies not in...

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block...

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of...

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows....

The promises of this world are, for the most part,...

The true work of art is but a shadow of...

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted....

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle....

What do you despise? By this you are truly known....

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot...

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