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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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
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Michelangelo Buonarrota
Michel Aniol
Michelangelo Buonarotti
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Michelangiolo Buonaroti
Michiel Angelo buonarota
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Mic Angelo
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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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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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I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
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In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.
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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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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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The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
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Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?
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It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
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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 power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
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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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