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Draw, Antonio draw, Antonio draw and don’t waste time.
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
Buonarhota
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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Patience is eternal genius
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Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?
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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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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
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A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
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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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Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
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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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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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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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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
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