Famous Quotes from ...
Michelangelo
- Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly.... Michelangelo {view}
- 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 {view}
- His hope is treacherous only whose love dies with beauty, which is varying every hour, bit, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, that breathes on earth the air of paradise.... Michelangelo {view}
- Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.... Michelangelo {view}
- The greater danger for most of us is notthat our aim is too high and we miss it,but that it is too low and we reach it.... Michelangelo {view}
- I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.... Michelangelo {view}
- Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.... Michelangelo {view}