Quotes of Michelangelo - somelinesforyou

“ A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ”

- Michelangelo Buonarroti

“ Genius is eternal patience. ”

- Michelangelo

“ Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. ”

- Michelangelo

“ If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. ”

- Michelangelo

“ Genius is eternal patience. ”

- Michelangelo

“ If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all. ”

- Michelangelo

“ Genius is eternal patience. ”

- Michelangelo

“ I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ”

- Michelangelo

“ Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. ”

- Michelangelo

“ If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. ”

- Michelangelo

“ Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish. ”

- Michelangelo

“ I couldn’t give you something mediocre even if that’s all you asked for. ”

- Michelangelo

“ I am still learning. ”

- Michelangelo

“ No great work of art is ever finished. ”

- Michelangelo

“ If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius. ”

- Michelangelo

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

- Michelangelo

“ I am still learning. ”

- Michelangelo

“ I’m still learning. ”

- Michelangelo

“ I am still learning. ”

- Michelangelo

“ 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

“ Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbnessthese please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low. ”

- Michelangelo Buonarroti

“ 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 Buonarroti

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

- Michelangelo Buonarroti

“ AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE. ”

- Michelangelo

“ The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ”

- Michelangelo

“ I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ”

- Michelangelo

“ The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ”

- Michelangelo

“ 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

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

- Michelangelo

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

- Michelangelo
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