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Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
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
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Michel Aniol
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Michelagniolo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
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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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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
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The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
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Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
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Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
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Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
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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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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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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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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
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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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So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
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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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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.
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