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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
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No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
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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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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Serene I fold my hands and wait.
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To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
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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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I am still learning. (at age 87)
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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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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
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If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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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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Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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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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Nature did all things well
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A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.
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The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
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