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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

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10 — Lady Gaga

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

An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. — Michelangelo

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope. — Michelangelo

The true work of art
is 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

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love. — 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

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features. — Bob Dylan

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.

You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece. — Rick Yancey

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

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

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. — Michelangelo

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. — Michelangelo

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man. — Michelangelo

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Serene I fold my hands and wait. — Michelangelo

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there. — Michelangelo

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka. — Uzo Aduba

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life. — Michelangelo

The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. — Michelangelo

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding. — Michelangelo

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at ... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement. — Michelangelo

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

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. — 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

You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him. — Bill Walton

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.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. — T. S. Eliot

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

He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture. — Michelangelo

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