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Michelangelo Inspirational Quotes (138)

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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
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I would throw out the sense of nation, good breeding, certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.
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I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
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After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
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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.
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
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The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
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You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.
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I live and love in God's peculiar light.
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Patience is eternal genius
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I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.
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A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.
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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
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Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.
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I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
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Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
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