Author: Michelangelo

Quotes

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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

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.

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

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

- Michelangelo

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

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

- Michelangelo

I am still learning.

I am still learning.

- Michelangelo

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

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

- Michelangelo

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

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

- Michelangelo

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

- Michelangelo

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

- Michelangelo

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