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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.
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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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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I live in sin, to kill myself I live no longer my life my own, but sin's my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
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There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
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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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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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No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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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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