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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
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
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Michel Aniol
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The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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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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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
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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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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
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I live and love in God's peculiar light.
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If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.
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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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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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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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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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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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