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“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“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 Buonarroti

“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. ”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)”
― Michelangelo

“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

“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”
― Michelangelo

“The true work of art
is but a shadow of the divine perfection”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.”
― Michelangelo

“Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.”
― Michelangelo

“O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,
with peace you force all the restless work to end;
those who exalt you see and understand,
and he is sound of mind who honours you.
You cut the thread of tired thoughts, for so
you offer calm in your moist shade; you send
to this low sphere the dreams where we ascend
up to the highest, where I long to go.
Shadow of death that brings to quiet close
all miseries that plague the heart and soul,
for those in pain the last and best of cures;
you heal the flesh of its infirmities,
dry and our tears and shut away our toil,
and free the good from wrath and fretting cares.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Complete Poems and Selected Letters

“Critique by creating.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti