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 More Quotes by Michelangelo More Quotes From Michelangelo Your greatness is measured by your horizons. Michelangelo horizon greatness He who follows another will never overtake him Michelangelo inspirational As you give out, so shall you receive. Michelangelo inspiration giving If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. Michelangelo mastery genius inspirational Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul. Michelangelo gazing soul beautiful 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 perception-of-beauty artist education So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers. Michelangelo widows numbers death 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 pride order people The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits. Michelangelo risk missing men Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth. Michelangelo sweet death fall I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope. Michelangelo god-love christianity Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding. Michelangelo sculpture painting made Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility. Michelangelo heart love-is beautiful Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly. Michelangelo elements shining purpose 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 soul perfect mind What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? Michelangelo shoes inspiration beautiful Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Michelangelo inspiration beauty art Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time. Michelangelo wasting-time waste inspiration Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not? Michelangelo chaste do-you-know knows I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. Michelangelo wife children art
