{"quotes":[{"text":"Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activism","attention","beethoven","choices","christ","christianity","copeouts","create-music","dance","destinations","dream-big","dreams","excuses","focus","gandhi","gifts","goals","helen-keller","inspire","invent","journeys","leonardo-da-vinci","michelangelo","mother-teresa","procastination","pushing-yourself","serve","stop-settling","talents","teach","write-books"],"id":99768,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. ","author":"Michelangelo Buonarroti","tags":["genius","michelangelo"],"id":116439,"author_id":"Michelangelo+Buonarroti"},{"text":"No I contradict myself. Picasso he do too. He say pull out your brain, yes, he also say, 'Painting is a blind man's profession' and 'To draw you must close your eyes and sing.' And Michelangelo, he say he sculpts with his brains, not his eyes. Yes. Everything ia true at once. Life is contradiction. We take in every lesson. We find what works. Okay, now pick up the charcoal and draw.","author":"Jandy Nelson","tags":["about-art","art","deep-thoughts","michelangelo"],"id":161046,"author_id":"Jandy+Nelson"},{"text":"I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.","author":"Paul Rudnick","tags":["god","grand-canyon","michelangelo","snacks"],"id":166882,"author_id":"Paul+Rudnick"},{"text":"Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["angel","art","artist","autobiography","character","marble","michelangelo","music","poetry","sculpture","songwriting","story","vision","writing"],"id":213676,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.","author":"Umberto Boccioni","tags":["art","michelangelo","sculpture"],"id":308487,"author_id":"Umberto+Boccioni"},{"text":"Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti].","author":"Irving Stone","tags":["art","artist","michelangelo"],"id":337407,"author_id":"Irving+Stone"},{"text":"In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.","author":"Erol Ozan","tags":["antiquity","architecture","art","art-history","artist","artistry","artwork","craft","craftsmanship","creation","creative-process","creativity","creatures","genius","grandeur","great-works-of-art","masterpiece","michelangelo","mona-lisa","museum","object-of-art","painting","sculpture","work-of-art"],"id":371186,"author_id":"Erol+Ozan"},{"text":"People are creators. But I doubt that many realize this. We are not meant to go out into the world and find flawless things, we are not meant to sit down and have flawless things fall into our laps. But we are creators. We can create a beautiful thing out of what we have. The problem with idealistic people is that they see themselves as receivers instead of creators, they end up hunting for the flaw in everything in order to measure it up to their ideals. Now, when you see yourself as a creator, you can look at a chunk of marble and see the angel within it. Then you carve until you have set that angel free.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["creating-beautiful-things","creating-the-beautiful","creators","humanity-and-society","idealism","idealistic-people","inspirational-life","inspirational-living","inspirational","makers","marble-angels","marble-carvings","marble-statues","michelangelo"],"id":419508,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}