“The mountains are where God proves He’s better than Michelangelo at sculpting.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo” — Tony Lynch Copy Share Image
Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]” — Miles J. Unger Copy Share Image
You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art,… — Gianni Versace Copy Share Image
“You can readily see the contrast in style between Michelangelo’s statues of David and also of St. Matthew.” — Hourly History Copy Share Image
“imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.” — Miles J. Unger Copy Share Image
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… — Brian Bird Copy Share Image
“Adam'e arm reaching towards God. When I first stood in the Sistine Chapel I wondered if Michelangelo was aware of his blasphemy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“If Michelangelo had seen this in daylight with the sun streaming down from the glass dome, he'd have fallen on his knees… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“My object in The Prince was to show defeated Italy a model of her savior, a man as perfect in the bold… — Michael Ennis Copy Share Image
“Michelangelo’s genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I really loved Michelangelo. I've always been a little partial to Donatello to be honest, especially with the animated series. There's just… — Noel Fisher Copy Share Image
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like… — Winsor McCay Copy Share Image
“the original commission for the ceiling was a plan designed by the pope and his closest advisers. Jesus was to have been… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Leonardo da Vinci and the much younger Michelangelo had often made it clear that they had no respect for each other’s craft.… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
This man painted the inside of a very big church in Italy. One of his giant paintings there is called The Creation… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“In Jewish tradition, we find the cautionary adage “Be in the world, but not of the world.” In the Gospels, Jesus says:… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“How to maintain the proper mood and not bore the congregation to sleep? Art was the answer. But not just pretty pictures… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
One of the big lies told about God is the one that says that God is a man. We know about ourselves… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“Like Michelangelo spending eight months in the mountains of Carrara, selecting the most perfect blocks of marble for the tomb of Pope… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player's prowess is sorely mistaken.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“sit well with Michelangelo. The project seemed like a series of insurmountable challenges: •It would be the largest fresco on earth—there would… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“To Giovanni da Pistoia Michelangelo, translated from the Italian by Joel Agee | 144 words (On painting the vault of the Sistine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Still, the rebellious artist had placed a minor Jewish prophet in the important spot where the pope had wanted Jesus. How did… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Leonardo was renowned as a painter, and Michelangelo (thanks to his Battle of the Centaurs and the David) was known for portraying… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“In 1510 the pope ordered the scaffolding dismantled and the first part of the fresco displayed to an eager public. The ecstatic… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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