It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand
Michelangelo
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
MICHELANGELO My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holdin...
PATRICIA HEATON Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand a...
ABDUL QADEER KHAN When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
PABLO PICASSO I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at...
SAM RILEY Ruth Ann sat with me and held my hand when I needed it. They were wonderful.
KIM HUNTER 'Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.'
FELIX SABATES Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.
FELIX SABATES I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, tha...
ROBERT E. LEE When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written pa...
GEORGE CLOONEY 23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
JAMES C. DOBSON Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in han...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I'm lucky that I hooked up with my husband because he not only helps me but there's a joy for him as...
SUSAN LUCCI Everything is all right,
When you’re here,
When you’re right next to me,
When my ...
ELIZABETH BROOKS Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well tog...
ANDRé ACIMAN I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the c...
KAREN QUAN I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY . . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to h...
RUTH BENEDICT I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI When I went out to shake Barry's hand, we both said the same thing to each other: 'Just when you thi...
GLEN MASON The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with ...
BILLY JOEL I have thought this way several times in my life but only when circumstances have led me to a bad pa...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Drualt took Freya's warm hand,
Her strong hand,
Her sword hand,
And pressed it to his...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I...
EBERHARD WEBER Isaiah grabs my hand and leads me away from the police...My heart stutters. He's holding my hand. A ...
KATIE MCGARRY I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with...
JUAN GRIS I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint ...
JUAN GRIS Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Life is so fragile and unpredictable, especially when you are in a gang or in a life of crime. It’...
DREXEL DEAL There were times when I was in the mist of the crowd and found I was the only one who didn't have a ...
CLYDE HUGHES When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some oth...
ORHAN PAMUK For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little...
BILLY GRAHAM There was a time when didn't have a rupee in my hand and then I vowed I shall be a billionaire.
TANMAYA GURU A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.
ARABIAN PROVERB I know it was him. It gave me the chills. He had a pistol in his hand, ... When I saw him, it freake...
WILLIAM BARCLAY I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beauti...
JOHN WOO The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytica...
RODNEY ATKINS Mychael stopped me with a hand on my arm. “Raine, when we get inside, let me answer all of the que...
LISA SHEARIN When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, pe...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, pe...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM I wish I could run an open with a baton in my hand. I've grown up with a baton in my hand. It's kind...
KYLA SCHMIDT Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
SAMUEL BUTLER I named it Hand-In-Hand because when people work together, hand-in-hand we can all make a difference...
AUSTIN WEINERMAN I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current s...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON I like to oversee what I do, so I have a hand in writing my songs. I also have people there to help ...
CIARA Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
DEYTH BANGER You are brave and loyal and true. You have such a good heart." He held my hand close to his chest an...
JULIANNE DONALDSON As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK “Dance with me, blossom,” he coaxes, and when I hesitate, he reels me in with his magic...
A.G. HOWARD I am like a friend to my children, but when things get out of hand, the 'mum' in me springs ...
JUHI CHAWLA When she reached me, she stopped and kissed my father on the cheek before taking my hand. However, w...
J.J. MCAVOY I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with havin...
NOEL COWARD I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with havin...
NOEL COWARD When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
RAYMOND CHANDLER And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me sl...
ORSON SCOTT CARD When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that litera...
MELODY LEE The thing that really gets to me is that countries are in the news only when things get out of hand....
ISHMAEL BEAH Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Why can a footballer hold a child's hand but when I do it people judge me.
CRAIG DEARING My mother turned towards me with a coffeepot in each hand, her jaw dangling somewhere near her colla...
RACHEL VINCENT Do you know what I see in you now? The usual aura. A steady golden yellow, healthy and strong, with ...
RICHELLE MEAD I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth bi...
ALESSIA CARA I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son's lunches, and she takes him to ...
BILL GOLDBERG Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inn...
KAILASH KHER Besides Slayer, which is a full-time job, I raise animals. I have a ranch in Texas. My wife takes ca...
TOM ARAYA I have a very active team who works with me when it comes to my styling and putting together a look.
JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ He?s a good shooter, so I had my hopes when it left his hand.
JAY MCKENNA One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA When God made love it came from the heavens, as a blessing to humanity and life.Love is pure when fo...
GARY F EVANS... Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
CARLY RAE JEPSEN When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'...
JOE FRAZIER When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA My confidence is up. I just think the big part is my teammates have confidence in me and they're get...
LATOYA PRINGLE When I deny the seriousness of my abuse I agree with my abuser and those who wouldn't acknowledge it...
PATTY HITE I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in compe...
NORMAN BRODSKY I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket ...
RACHEL SKLAR The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A.A. MILNE When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart. I cry, and then I extend my hand to help h...
DEBASISH MRIDHA I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on...
HANK AARON When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE Probably, I thought, my suffering and training is a lifelong process. It will end only when I go to ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy ...
ALAN BRADLEY When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my t...
LAURYN HILL Unlike everyone else, I love when people try to down me. It only pushes me closer to my goals.
JEREMY CHEATWOOD I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I ...
JERRY SPINELLI When God paints with me, my work is divine, and when I paint alone its not.
JIM GENOVESE When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
SEáN O'CASEY We know that against Canada, you only have a chance when you pay with the same money back. I think w...
JAKOB KOLLIKER I knew my grandpa had a good hand because he started chuckling when the nickel popped up, but I cert...
BRUCE LAWRY At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
BOB DYLAN When it hit me man I was at the hospital in the emergency room in the bathroom when I heard…when I...
DANIEL PAYNE When it hit me man I was at the hospital in the emergency room in the bathroom when I heard
when I ...
DANIEL PAYNE
More Michelangelo
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 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 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 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