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Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.
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
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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
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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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Patience is eternal genius
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
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The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.
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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
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To touch is to give life.
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If the wine is not good, then throw it out!
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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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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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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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Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
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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.
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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
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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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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
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