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Letter "M" » Michelangelo Quotes
«Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.»
Author: Michelangelo
«Nature did all things well.»
Author: Michelangelo
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«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.»
Author: Michelangelo
«His hope is treacherous only whose love dies with beauty, which is varying every hour, bit, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, that breathes on earth the air of paradise.»
Author: Michelangelo
«What good I have comes from the pure air of your native Arezzo, and also because I sucked in chisels and hammers with my nurse's milk.»
Author: Michelangelo
«I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.»
Author: Michelangelo
«The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.»
Author: Michelangelo
«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.»
Author: 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 obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.»
Author: Michelangelo
«If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.»
Author: Michelangelo
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