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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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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.
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend
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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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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
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To touch is to give life.
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
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I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
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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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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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So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
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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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I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
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