Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the sou...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy p...
ESTHER DALSENO What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled element...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, t...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might
of design, the mystery of color, ...
UNKNOWN A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.
ERIC HOFFER Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself an...
ARISTOTLE Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are all in the middle of nature beauty contest.
TOBA BETA In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ...
C. JOYBELL C. Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah C...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Michelangelo told [his biographer] Condivi what to write, ... Michelangelo was aware of posterity, s...
ROSS KING A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, and also, as having magnitude, complete in ...
ARISTOTLE If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
OLEG CASSINI God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th...
AMIT RAY Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
OLIVER PLATT I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I h...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spar...
DUDLEY NORTH 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 The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
LEW WALLACE We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean cat...
JIM MORRISON Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.
AMIT RAY Love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
CHINESE PROVERB Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
CHINESE PROVERBS Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the ...
ERIC HOFFER The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
ROBERT FROST The wondrous beauty of the flowers grant pleasure never forgotten
SYLVIA MORGAN Life is full of special moments.
Ensure you don't forget a single one.
ANMOL P. JAORA The beauty in words is realized only by actions as fragrance is already there in flowers, but it is ...
ANUJ SOMANY Believe in beauty of dreams & experience adventure in life.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There's nothing like beauty of heart as it makes everything look beautiful.
ANUJ SOMANY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. This is a city where you can go from Bernini to Michelangelo to Julius Caesar to Meier. This is what...
WALTER VELTRONI The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY Around the dimmed and smoky view of Michelangelo a whole culture has formed itself. and many will no...
GIANLUIGI COLALUCCI Your library makes our small corner of the world feel big...
BELLE (BEAUTY & THE BEAST) The beauty of beauty is the very centre of beauty. For sometimes its just a superficial coating to u...
IAN IJH HOWELL The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. -Rumi.
RUMI Focusing on the beauty of life is insight. Enjoying the beauty of life is happiness.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of th...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Through the exhibit, you can see changes in Michelangelo as a man, and some of the core artistic ele...
HUGO CHAPMAN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is no...
DAVID BAILEY Knowledge is the beauty of a diamond, but wisdom is the shining reflection of that beauty.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY Youth is beauty,Money is beauty, hell beauty is beauty sometimes
ANI DIFRANCO To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The beauty in the heart is the beauty of body, soul and spirit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Re...
DAMIEN HIRST Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
CHRISTIAN DIOR We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Ga...
LADY GAGA We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w...
TOM ALTHOUSE Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hit...
HANYA YANAGIHARA If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather t...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
JULIE BURCHILL The earth is always changing...readjusting to our existence. Each era is full of unique challenges
VAL UCHENDU In my perception and self - awareness of life, I see the big picture ~ I see my self ~ the place of ...
ANGIE KARAN Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that ...
SHANNON L. ALDER The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil.
but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U...
ANGIE KARAN When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his li...
G. K. CHESTERTON Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exac...
KARL LAGERFELD The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the...
ROBINSON JEFFERS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Love is never about beauty of the face,but it should be about beauty of the place & circumstance whe...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: o...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA 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.
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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.
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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 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