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General Contractor Inspirational Quotes (89)

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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo
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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.
Michelangelo
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There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
Michelangelo
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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
Michelangelo
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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.
Michelangelo
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No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
Michelangelo
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo
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It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that of engineers and builders called from across the world to build bridges, viaducts, stations and major monuments of modern industry, the Eiffel Tower deserves to be treated with consideration.
Gustave Eiffel
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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
Michelangelo
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In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.
Michelangelo
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There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?
Gustave Eiffel
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo
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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
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So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
Michelangelo
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An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
Michelangelo
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
Michelangelo
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Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved
Michelangelo
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I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
Michelangelo
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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.
Michelangelo
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If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.
Michelangelo
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Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?
Michelangelo
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Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
Michelangelo
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Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
Michelangelo
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Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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