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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.


Michelangelo

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MICHELANGELO Everything hurts.
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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...
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and ...
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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