Top 37 Quotes About Michelangelo Buonarroti

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

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#2. Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

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#3. 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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#4. I am still learning.

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#5. The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

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#6. If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

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#7. From such a gentle thing,from such a fountain of all delight,my every pain is born ...

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#8. With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

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#9. A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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#10. Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire,
I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished
outside me, it besets and consumes me inside,
and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

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#11. The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes.

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#12. You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire ... The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps ... I can hardly write without envy.
Michelangelo on the dead.

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#13. Critique by creating.

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#14. Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

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#15. Bound to you as the rays are to the sun.

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#16. Genius is eternal patience.

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#17. Yet I am learning

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#18. No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

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#19. Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

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#20. AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

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#21. Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
not seeing and not hearing, I am blest;
so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.

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#22. Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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.

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#25. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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#26. Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

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

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#28. I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

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

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#30. 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.

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#31. Please don't trouble yourself. God didn't make us to abandon us.

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

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#33. Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.

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#34. Patience is eternal genius

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#35. The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.

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#36. 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.

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#37. Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don't waste time.

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