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Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

~ Michelangelo

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When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Art Artist

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Art Artist

Genius is eternal patience.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Difficult Days

Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Faith Unity

Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Self Confidence

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.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Love Work Age

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo I Can Desire Accomplish

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Death Good Man

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Art Perfection Shadow

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Soul Earth My Soul

Genius is eternal patience.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Genius Eternal

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

Michelangelo Life Master Same

I am still learning.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo I Am Still Am

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Alone Thought Artist

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Life Art I Am

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Best Oneself Course

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Love Light God

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Love Light Eyes

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Perception Anything Here

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Stone Task Discover

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Free Angel Him

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Man Hands Brains

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Thought Artist Greatest

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Best Artists Within

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

~ Michelangelo

Michelangelo Live Paint Cannot
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