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Art Quotes by Michelangelo
- The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes...…
- Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
- In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I…
- A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
- The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful…
- Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
- If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
- I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
- Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.
- No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
- I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all…
- True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
- I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
- Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
- Genius is eternal patience.
- The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
- A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
- If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
- Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
- 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…
- Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
- Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
- It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
- The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov