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Michelangelo has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,…
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Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting…
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It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
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Genius is infinite painstaking.
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude…
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For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God…
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A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
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I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
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The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is…
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The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is…
— William Sloane Coffin
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It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract…
— Michelangelo
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Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark…
— Hesiod
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The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments…
— Harold B. Lee
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the…
— Kate Elliott
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