Author: Michelangelo

Quotes

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 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.

- 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

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

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

- 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

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

- Michelangelo

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

- Michelangelo

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

- Michelangelo

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