8 Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes on Art

Michelangelo Buonarroti quotes on art

3. Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

4. I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

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7. As when, O lady mine! With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould. The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

10. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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11. What good I have comes from the pure air of your native Arezzo, and also because I sucked in chisels and hammers with my nurse's milk.

13. Criticize by creating

14. Painting is not my art.

15. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

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