Michelangelo Quotes

80 Michelangelo quotes by 70 unique authors

The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed… — Jacob Bronowski
Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as… — Reinaldo Arenas
I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or… — Michael Jackson
It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian,… — James A. Michener
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts… — Willem de Kooning
Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle. — Henry Fuseli
You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you. — Joe Vitale
I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be… — Winsor McCay
Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm… — Mary McCarthy
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would… — David Chase
The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is… — Reynolds Price
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because… — Fernand Leger
Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features. — Bob Dylan
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct… — Charles de Lint
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy... — Auguste Rodin
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful… — Paul Cezanne
Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and… — Ben Shahn
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp. — Henry Fuseli
The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the… — Wassily Kandinsky
When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in… — Giorgio Vasari
Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires… — Steve Jobs
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that… — Umberto Eco
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. — Damien Hirst
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. — Madeleine L'Engle

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