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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.
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
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Michael Angelo Buonarotti
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The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
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It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.
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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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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
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Critique by creating.
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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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