Genius is eternal patience.


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Genius is eternal patience.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Patience is eternal genius
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Genius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTON
Genius is patience.
BUFFON
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Re...
DAMIEN HIRST
Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.]
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
Michelangelo told [his biographer] Condivi what to write, ... Michelangelo was aware of posterity, s...
ROSS KING
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
GEORGES-LOUIS LECLERC BUFFON
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The r...
WALTER C. KLEIN
The true wisdom is to win the eternal battle of patience and time.
IRFAN SAEED
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.
GEORGES-LOUIS LECLERC BUFFON
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
COMTE DE BUFFON
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in th...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
His drawings of the male nude are incredibly sensual. You get the feeling of his hand all over the b...
HUGO CHAPMAN
The ghosts of Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli and all the rest hang in the air, like San Fr...
ÉRIC WEINER
Our main strategy is patience, patience, patience.
BILL TOOHEY
What we admire about Michelangelo, ... is that he was so devoted to something.
ROSS KING
I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
CAROLYN KIZER
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works...
C.S. LEWIS
Patience is not something that you keep; patience is something that you learn. How is patience learn...
DADA BHAGWAN
Art is eternal, but life is short.
EVELYN DE MORGAN
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Your Eternal Happiness is your Eternal Prosperity.
SATYA KALRA
Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
DAISAKU IKEDA
A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
This is a city where you can go from Bernini to Michelangelo to Julius Caesar to Meier. This is what...
WALTER VELTRONI
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is o...
FRANÇOIS-RENÉ DE CHATEAUBRIAND
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is onl...
ALEXANDER POPE
Stupidity is genius, it's the genius part that is often misunderstood.
TOMMY POLO
Hands down, Rick Ross is a genius. Hands down, Diddy is a genius. Hands down, Kanye is a genius. All...
BETTY WRIGHT
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torm...
ISAAC ASIMOV
You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
OLEG CASSINI
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
CHINESE PROVERB
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.
UNKNOWN
Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the m...
BRIAN L. WEISS
The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
OTTO WEININGER
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is no...
DAVID BAILEY
Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and...
CRISS JAMI
The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance and the price of wisdom is eternal thought
FRANK BIRCH
The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed men...
MADCHEN AMICK
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my...
BILL NIGHY
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
KATHLEEN WINSOR
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
ANONYMOUS
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
ANONYMOUS
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
VOLTAIRE
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
ANONYMOUS
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
ARISTOTLE
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
KEN NDARU
A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more p...
JAMES PATTERSON
It is better not to have patience at all than to have short-term patience.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA)
Patience is passion tamed.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Patience is sorrow's salve.
CHARLES CHURCHILL
Endurance is patience concentrated.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Humility is attentive patience.
SIMONE WEIL
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
DON G. MITCHELL
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry
DONALD GRANT MITCHELL
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Genius is intensity
HONORE DE BALZAC
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
ELON MUSK
Wealth is not meant for those without the gift of patience,for inside wealth Lies patience.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain you...
RAY A. DAVIS
Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Thought alone is eternal
OWEN MEREDITH
Energy is eternal delight
WILLIAM BLAKE
Diego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
BOB WILSON
My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.
DAVID HANSON
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
MICHELANGELO
Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in set...
MICHELANGELO
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
MICHELANGELO
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execu...
MICHELANGELO
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
MICHELANGELO
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that cele...
MICHELANGELO
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
MICHELANGELO
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor'...
MICHELANGELO
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MICHELANGELO
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
MICHELANGELO
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
MICHELANGELO
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
MICHELANGELO
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO
I am still learning.
MICHELANGELO
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
MICHELANGELO
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
MICHELANGELO

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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
MICHELANGELO
Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in set...
MICHELANGELO
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
MICHELANGELO
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execu...
MICHELANGELO
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
MICHELANGELO
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that cele...
MICHELANGELO
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
MICHELANGELO
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor'...
MICHELANGELO
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MICHELANGELO
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
MICHELANGELO
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
MICHELANGELO
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
MICHELANGELO
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO
I am still learning.
MICHELANGELO
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
MICHELANGELO
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
MICHELANGELO
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
MICHELANGELO
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
MICHELANGELO
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's ha...
MICHELANGELO
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
MICHELANGELO
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
MICHELANGELO
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
MICHELANGELO
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to m...
MICHELANGELO
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
MICHELANGELO
If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
MICHELANGELO
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love wo...
MICHELANGELO
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the h...
MICHELANGELO
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
MICHELANGELO
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the...
MICHELANGELO
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...
MICHELANGELO
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old ...
MICHELANGELO
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equa...
MICHELANGELO
After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jere...
MICHELANGELO
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but ...
MICHELANGELO
Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I aff...
MICHELANGELO
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish
MICHELANGELO
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
MICHELANGELO
My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness
MICHELANGELO
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in...
MICHELANGELO
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO
It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand
MICHELANGELO
What good I have comes from the pure air of your native Arezzo, and also because I sucked in chisels...
MICHELANGELO
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it
MICHELANGELO
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has
MICHELANGELO
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
MICHELANGELO
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
MICHELANGELO
Everything hurts.
MICHELANGELO
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
MICHELANGELO
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
MICHELANGELO
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially cont...
MICHELANGELO
The first man Adam became a living being.
MICHELANGELO
The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth no...
MICHELANGELO
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to e...
MICHELANGELO
Nature did all things well.
MICHELANGELO
His hope is treacherous only whose love dies with beauty, which is varying every hour, bit, in chast...
MICHELANGELO
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop
MICHELANGELO
Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my rel...
MICHELANGELO
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
MICHELANGELO
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is to...
MICHELANGELO
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too...
MICHELANGELO
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and ...
MICHELANGELO
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts
MICHELANGELO
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
MICHELANGELO
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, ...
MICHELANGELO
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
MICHELANGELO
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promi...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
The best artist has that thought alone
Which is contained within the marble shell;
The sculp...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
This comes from dangling from the ceiling
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Genius is eternal patience.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and ...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more th...
MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in set...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore t...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual ...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTTI
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as scien...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern societ...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid d...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI
Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more th...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the specta...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern so...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Patience is eternal genius
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
n...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and conce...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself co...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,
with peace you force all the restless work to en...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI