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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.
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
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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 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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I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
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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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I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
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A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.
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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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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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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
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