MICHELANGELO QUOTE

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

“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.”

“I am still learning.”

“Genius is eternal patience.”

“The greatest 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.”

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

“I live and love in darkness with my hands.”

“Every artist dips his brush in his soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

“The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain within itself.”

“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.”

“The greatest reward for an artist is to see that his work is appreciated by others.”

“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art which God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”

“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?”

“The true work of art is born from the ‘artist’: a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.”

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“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

“The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.”

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

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”

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

“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art which God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”

“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?”

“I am still learning.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The greatest artist does not have any concept which a single piece of marble does not itself contain within itself.”

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

“The greatest reward for an artist is to see that his work is appreciated by others.”