Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Quote by Michelangelo
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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Michelangelo Quotes
- The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
- A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
- Genius is eternal patience.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I live and love in God's peculiar light.
- If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
- 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.
- If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Best Quotes
- Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
- My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
- Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
- Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
- More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
- There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
- Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
- Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
- I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
- The dearth of faith or religion is the death of existence. Because our existence must revolve around faith.