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Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
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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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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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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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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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
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Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.
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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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If the wine is not good, then throw it out!
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