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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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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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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
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Nature did all things well
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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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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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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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I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.
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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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Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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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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Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?
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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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Critique by creating.
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