Author: Michelangelo

Quotes

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

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

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

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

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

- Michelangelo

Genius is eternal patience.

Genius is eternal patience.

- Michelangelo

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.

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

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

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

- 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

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