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" Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. "
Michelangelo
Stone
Task
Imagination
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Brain
Nonsense
" 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. "
Michelangelo
Free
Hand
Alone
" Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. "
Ken Robinson
Creativity
Imagination
Culture
" Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. "
Plato
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Soul
Music
" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "
Michelangelo
His
Hands
Brains
" The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. "
Michelangelo
Within
Artists
Best
" Imagination is more important than knowledge. "
Albert Einstein
More
Wisdom
Imagination
" Genius is eternal patience. "
Michelangelo
Eternal
Patience
Genius
" The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. "
Michelangelo
Artist
Art
Thought
" It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. "
Michelangelo
Chisel
Only
Me
" Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. "
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Desire
Inspirational
I Can
" Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts. "
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Divine
Even
Disdain
" Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. "
Michelangelo
Trifle
Art
Make
" The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
World
Reality
Limits
" 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
Same
Death
Been
" 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
Compass
Judges
" The power of imagination makes us infinite. "
John Muir
Us
Imagination
Power
" I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. "
Michelangelo
Pressures
Alone
Cannot
" What do you despise? By this you are truly known. "
Michelangelo
Truly
You
Known
" Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. "
Michelangelo
Death
Man
Love
" There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. "
Michelangelo
Wasted
Greater
Harm
" 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
Shoe
Spirit
Blind
" 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. "
Michelangelo
Hope
Age
God
" When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. "
Walt Disney
Curious
Interesting
You
" You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. "
Mark Twain
Depend
Imagination
You
" Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. "
Michelangelo
Skin
Stop
Go
" 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
Best
Most
" The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. "
Albert Einstein
Intelligence
Imagination
Knowledge
" We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Suffer
More
Hurt
" I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. "
Michelangelo
Never
Nature
Love