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From Quotes by Michelangelo
- It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
- 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,…
- Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt…
- The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
- An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
- Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for…
- If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
- Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
- From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
- I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
- So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that…
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