Michelangelo Quotes

Italian - Artist | March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564

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

Michelangelo

WorkArtPerfectionShadowTrue

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

Michelangelo

ImaginationStoneInsideTaskStatue

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

Michelangelo

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

Michelangelo

ImaginationAngelFreeHimMarble

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

WisdomShortAchievingAimHighLow

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

Michelangelo

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I am still learning.

Michelangelo

LearningI AmStillAm

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

PeopleHardMasteryWonderfulSeem

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

Michelangelo

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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.

Michelangelo

LifeGodArtManI AmMe

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?

Michelangelo

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The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

Michelangelo

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