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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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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
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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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Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.
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To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
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I live in sin, to kill myself I live no longer my life my own, but sin's my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
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Draw, Antonio draw, Antonio draw and don’t waste time.
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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
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