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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
Michel
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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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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
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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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Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
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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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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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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
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There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
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The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
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After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
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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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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
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I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
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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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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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