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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Michelangelo
Artists
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo
Soul
Earth
Heaven
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.
Michelangelo
Beauty
Love
Heart
Day
End
Eyes
Light
Youth
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo
Blind
Fact
Skin
Spirit
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Perfection
Trifle
Trifles
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Michelangelo
Time
Harm
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.
Michelangelo
Promises
Self
Value
World
Worth
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo
Thought
Artist
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo
Artist
Mind
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
People
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo
Death
Life
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
Art
Work
Perfection
Shadow
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo
Eye
Eyes
Judges
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
Danger
Lies
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo
Desire
May