A Quote by Michelangelo

There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.

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Michelangelo
Italian - Artist
March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564

Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

Michelangelo

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Jürgen Moltmann

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

Michelangelo

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

James Russell Lowell

And if the Son has set us free Then we must be, free indeed Let the chains fall away, starting today. Everything has changed I'm finally free.

Nichole Nordeman

When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.

Lauren DeStefano

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.

Roberto Unger

Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed. Was this recorded this century? Or out of a basement that's she's been imprisoned all her life? Time to set her loose on the world. I'm so happy she exists. Set me free Mary!

Karen O

Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

Bertrand Russell

Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.

Luke Rhinehart

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

Herman Melville

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

Jean Cocteau

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

Nigel Farage

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

Henry Williamson

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.

Criss Jami

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