Chisel Away Quotes by Michelangelo

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Michelangelo has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,…
• Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting…
• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
• In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude…
• I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
• Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
• The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
• No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

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