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Michelangelo once said, "If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." His
— Gary Keller
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 Buonarroti
Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him
— Michelangelo
Yet I am learning
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
— Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo's girlfriend, who said to Angelo, Forget the paint - let's put a mirror on the ceiling. Never got a dinner!
— Red Buttons
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
— Damien Hirst
No great work of art is ever finished.
— Michelangelo
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don't waste time.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
— David Bailey
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
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
The earliest complete Odyssey to have survived is from the late tenth century, now in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence,
— Adam Nicolson
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
— Michelangelo
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
— Umberto Boccioni
I am still learning.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.
— Paul Rudnick
Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.
— Anthony Bourdain
Nature did all things well
— Michelangelo
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
— Michelangelo
The true work of artis but a shadow of the divine perfection — Michelangelo Buonarroti
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
— Gianni Versace
A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.
— Michelangelo
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
— Michelangelo
But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
— Michelangelo
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
— Michelangelo
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
— Michelangelo
Genius is eternal patience.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
You cannot penetrate events with reportage.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
— Michelangelo
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
— Michelangelo
I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.
— Brian Bird
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
— Michelangelo
AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
— Michelangelo
The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.
— Mark Twain
Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!
— Michelangelo
I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
— Michelangelo
The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
— Michelangelo
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
— Michelangelo
With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
— Carolyn Kizer
Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.
— Michelangelo
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
— Michelangelo
If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.
— Uzo Aduba
The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
— Michelangelo
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
— Michelangelo
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
— Michelangelo
A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
Please don't trouble yourself. God didn't make us to abandon us.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
— Michelangelo
Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
— Michelangelo
Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
As far as I knew, Nadia was still with her new guy, some fancy tennis player from Brazil. Donatello or Michelangelo or something. Ninja Turtle? Yeah.
— Ilsa Madden-Mills
To touch is to give life.
— Michelangelo
A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
— Michelangelo
Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.
— Yasumasa Morimura
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
— Michelangelo
If the wine is not good, then throw it out!
— Michelangelo
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
— Michelangelo
Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.
— Henry Fuseli
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
— Michelangelo
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti