Michelangelo Quotes
80 quotes by 71 authors
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and…
— George Bernard Shaw
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How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each promise made in…
— Belinda Carlisle
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When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.
— Kanye West
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I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works…
— D. H. Lawrence
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You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.
— Bill Walton
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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed…
— Neil Simon
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What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a…
— Pablo Casals
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If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.
— Uzo Aduba
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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color
— Edvard Munch
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Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get…
— Gianni Versace
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Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has…
— Herbert J. Muller
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I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.
— Paul Rudnick
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I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at…
— Lucius Beebe
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If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd…
— Robert Fulghum
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When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine Michelangelo living five…
— Wayne Dyer
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I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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