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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
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Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
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I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
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Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
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Nature did all things well
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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
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If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.
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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
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It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
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