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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.
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
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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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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
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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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Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
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I live and love in God's peculiar light.
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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
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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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Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.
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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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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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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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Critique by creating.
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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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