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35 Inspirational Michelangelo Quotes (SCULPTOR)

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Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.Pin
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
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.Pin
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.
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.Pin
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.Pin
Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.Pin
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.Pin
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.Pin
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.
Genius is eternal patience.Pin
Genius is eternal patience.
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.Pin
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.Pin
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

13 Michelangelo Quotes to Inspire You to Master Your Art

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.Pin
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.Pin
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.Pin
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.Pin
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
The idea is locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.Pin
The idea is locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.Pin
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.Pin
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.Pin
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.Pin
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.Pin
I couldn’t give you something mediocre even if that’s all you asked for.
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.Pin
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.Pin
Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.Pin
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

12 Inspirational Michelangelo Quotes About Life and Death

“The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.”

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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.Pin
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.Pin
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.Pin
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.Pin
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.Pin
It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.Pin
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
What do you despise By this you are truly known.Pin
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.Pin
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?Pin
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
I live and love in God's peculiar light.Pin
I live and love in God’s peculiar light.
As you give out so you shall receive.Pin
As you give out so you shall receive.
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