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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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
Michel Angel de Bonarrotta
Michelangelo Buonnaroti
Michelangelo Buonarrota
Michel Aniol
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Michelagniolo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni
Michelangiolo
Michelangiolo Buonaroti
Michiel Angelo buonarota
Buonaruota
Mic Angelo
Buonarhota
Michel
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If the wine is not good, then throw it out!
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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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If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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