There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free. Michelangelo More Quotes by Michelangelo More Quotes From Michelangelo I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for. Michelangelo mediocreifsgiving Your greatness is measured by your horizons. Michelangelo horizongreatness He who follows another will never overtake him Michelangelo inspirational As you give out, so shall you receive. Michelangelo inspirationgiving If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. Michelangelo masterygeniusinspirational Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul. Michelangelo gazingsoulbeautiful 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-beautyartisteducation 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 widowsnumbersdeath 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 prideorderpeople The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits. Michelangelo riskmissingmen 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 sweetdeathfall I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope. Michelangelo god-lovechristianity Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding. Michelangelo sculpturepaintingmade Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility. Michelangelo heartlove-isbeautiful Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly. Michelangelo elementsshiningpurpose 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 soulperfectmind 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 shoesinspirationbeautiful Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Michelangelo inspirationbeautyart Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time. Michelangelo wasting-timewasteinspiration Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not? Michelangelo chastedo-you-knowknows
