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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
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Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
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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 saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
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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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The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
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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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Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!
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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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If the wine is not good, then throw it out!
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I am still learning. (at age 87)
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The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.
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Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.
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The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
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Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
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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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