Best Michelangelo Quotes

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A list of the best Michelangelo quotes. List is arranged by which ones are the most famous Michelangelo quotes and which have proven the most popular with visitors to this page. All the top quotes from Michelangelo should be listed here, but if any were missed you can add more quotes by Michelangelo at the end of the list. This list includes notable Michelangelo quotes on various subjects; if you are looking for subject-specific quotes, those can also be found on Ranekr. Vote on the following Michelangelo quotations list so that only the greatest quotes rise to the top, as the order of the list changes dynamically based on votes. Don't let your favorite Michelangelo sayings get to the bottom of the list! This list has everything from Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. to I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all..

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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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There is an essential relationship between architecture and the proportions of the human body, and he who has not made himself master of the human form and especially of anatomy, will understand nothing of architecture.

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Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

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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 that the garment with which it is clothed?

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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

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Everything hurts.

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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

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Genius is eternal patience.

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

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