Tag: Michelangelo
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo
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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
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I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin’s; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
Michelangelo
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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
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I live and love in God’s peculiar light.
Michelangelo
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The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Michelangelo