Genius is eternal patience.
Quote by Michelangelo
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Genius is eternal patience.
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Michelangelo Quotes
- Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
- I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- 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.
- Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
- 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.
- I live and love in God's peculiar light.
- The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
- The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.
- Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
- It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
- I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
- The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
- I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
- No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.