Michelangelo Quotes

80 Michelangelo quotes by 70 unique authors

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master… — John Lasseter
Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in… — Jerry Saltz
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.… — Orson Welles
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a… — Brigham Young
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations… — Brenda Ueland
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpturing is you (Dr. Joe… — Rhonda Byrne
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. — Irving Stone
We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10 — Lady Gaga
The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our… — John Green
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that… — Demetri Martin
Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid. — Pablo Picasso
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and… — Rick Yancey
You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my… — Rick Yancey
We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece. — Rick Yancey
The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo. — Mark Twain
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned. — David Bailey
Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty. — Unknown Author
Art is coming face to face with yourself. That's what's wrong with Benton. He came face to face with Michelangelo-- and he lost — Jackson Pollock
NINJA TURTLES! Michelangelo-Leslie! Leonardo-Patience! Raphael-Summer! Donatello-Jazzy(Me)!! :O — Jazzy
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.… — Orson Welles
One of the big lies told about God is the one that says that God is a man. We know about ourselves how weak and… — Babloo
This man painted the inside of a very big church in Italy. One of his giant paintings there is called The Creation of Adam. He… — Babloo

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