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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
Architect
Draftsperson
Engineer
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Poet
Sculptor
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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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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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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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
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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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The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
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Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!
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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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