Michelangelo Quotes About Art
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
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Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
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So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
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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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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
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No great work of art is ever finished.
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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.
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
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If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.
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I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.
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Genius is eternal patience.
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
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A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
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I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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