Michelangelo Quotes

I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Michelangelo

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Type:
Artist Quotes
Category:
Italian Artist Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 6, 1475
Date of Death:
March 18, 1564
Nationality:
Italian
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I am still learning.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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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.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
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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


Quote Keywords:

God, Light, Live, Love, Peculiar
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