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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
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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
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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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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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 feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
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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.
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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
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Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
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So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend
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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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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
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No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
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Draw, Antonio draw, Antonio draw and don’t waste time.
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
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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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