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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
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Michelangelo Bonorotti
Michael Angelo Buonarotti
Miguel Angel
Michel Angel de Bonarrotta
Michelangelo Buonnaroti
Michelangelo Buonarrota
Michel Aniol
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Michelagniolo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni
Michelangiolo
Michelangiolo Buonaroti
Michiel Angelo buonarota
Buonaruota
Mic Angelo
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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
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If the wine is not good, then throw it out!
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
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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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If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
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No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
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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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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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