31 Quotes & Sayings By Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Florence, Italy. He quickly rose to fame as the most skilled sculptor of his time. His use of line and form brought a new life to sculpture and changed how art was made forever.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
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Your greatness is measured by your horizons. Michelangelo
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I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free. Michelangelo
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michelangelo
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When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David." Michelangelo
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. Michelangelo
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I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free. Michelangelo
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Genius is eternal patience. Michelangelo
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Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course. Michelangelo
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Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo
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Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course. Michelangelo
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Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo
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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
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. Michelangelo
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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. Michelangelo
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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
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I am still learning. Michelangelo
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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
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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
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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. Michelangelo
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I live and love in God's peculiar light. Michelangelo
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If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. Michelangelo
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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
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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. Michelangelo
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Michelangelo
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. Michelangelo
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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
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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. Michelangelo
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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. Michelangelo