Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes
Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
3174 No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
2840 If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,
as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,
it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,
and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
3507 Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,
While pain and guilt still linger here below,
Blindness and numbness-these please me alone;
Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
2778 As when, O lady mine,
With chiselled touch
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes,
The more the statue grows.
1808 Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
2470 The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.
3269 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.
4914 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.
2059 AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.
1697 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.
2050 Critique by creating.
3305 Ancora Imparo
(Yet I am learning)
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