Art Quote by Michelangelo

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand…

— Michelangelo

“The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A…

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

— Melina Mercouri

There is no best anything in art.

— Jeff Daniels

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free…

— Michelangelo

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

There is nothing that art cannot express.

— Oscar Wilde

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

— Oscar Wilde

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

— T. S. Eliot

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

— Mary Leakey

No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

— Eric Maisel