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Michelangelo

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DAVE GARDNER I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from a...
MAN RAY I was a child prodigy. Like Michelangelo, who could draw a perfect circle at age five. I was extreme...
MICHAEL CIMINO The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I am afraid it is a non-starter. I cannot even use a bicycle pump [let alone a computer].
JUDI DENCH I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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G. K. CHESTERTON If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
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FRIDA KAHLO I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.
FRIDA KAHLO If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
IMMANUEL HERMASS VON FICHTE Let me alone, and go in search of someone else..
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Just let me paint for you.
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KARL HEPNER Under the circumstances with the injuries and the club financial pressures, the team did well.
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By Omrane Khuder.

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Tox...
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RICHARD OKORIE I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home
EDWARD ROWLAND SILL I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone
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EMILY CARR The powerful are self-immunized from even inquiry, let alone punishment for their crimes.
NOAM CHOMSKY If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.
And if I cannot be in y...
RANATA SUZUKI A branch cannot live independently from the tree – it will wither
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CYNTHIA ANDERSON It's unbelievable. No one, let alone the widow of a former president, should live like this. The lea...
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BRIAN DOLAN I shall live alone. Always alone. In a house or a tree.'

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DAVID ADLER I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
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WILLIAM PENNINGTON I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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JOSE MARTI I felt under pressure… My shoulder felt very heavy… (Stressed out). Complaint to God… He repli...
ANUROOP TYAGI If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON What is your motto Mr. Valentino? Live and Let Live.
RUDOLPH VALENTINO They alone live, who live for others.
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NATASHA VANDERLINDEN I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.
HERMANN HESSE Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.
RODNEY KING Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.
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NIKKI ROWE We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life.
SHARON WEIL We let the mayor pick out the (paint) colors and the carpet.
ANNETTE BRIGHTWELL If the paint wants to flow, I let it flow. If it wants to just sit there, I walk away.
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BALTHUS The artist cannot paint without an idea, Your imagination needs insperation to get going.
RYAN THACKER Nature cannot live in pollution and we cannot live without nature.
TAUSEEF SHAH I cannot live, if I am already dead.
DONNA RUSSO MORIN These weren't patrons, so we know they weren't standing up or goofing off.
LIZ COMPTON Just take a look at our patrons, and you'll know
Some don't appreciate us, others never will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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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 Genius is eternal patience.
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 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