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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
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The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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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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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
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