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Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
Architect
Draftsperson
Engineer
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Painter
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Sculptor
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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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
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If the wine is not good, then throw it out!
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I am still learning. (at age 87)
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Nature did all things well
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If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
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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 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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It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.
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Draw, Antonio draw, Antonio draw and don’t waste time.
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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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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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