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General Contractor Inspirational Quotes (89)

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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo
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Critique by creating.
Michelangelo
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
Michelangelo
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Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
Michelangelo
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It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.
Michelangelo
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I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
Michelangelo
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I am still learning. (at age 87)
Michelangelo
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The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.
Michelangelo
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Serene I fold my hands and wait.
Michelangelo
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
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The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
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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To touch is to give life.
Michelangelo
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To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
Michelangelo
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
Michelangelo
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
Michelangelo
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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
Michelangelo
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend
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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I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.
Michelangelo
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Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Michelangelo
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