Genius is eternal patience.
Quote by Michelangelo
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Genius is eternal patience.
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Michelangelo Quotes
- Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
- The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
- Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
- Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
- Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
- Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
- I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
- I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
- The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
- I live and love in God's peculiar light.
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- Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
- I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
- The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
- My nature just changes.
- Natural history is not about producing fables.