Art Quote by Michelangelo Download Open image “The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.” — Michelangelo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Marble
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
