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I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
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
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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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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
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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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Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
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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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Nature did all things well
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
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To touch is to give life.
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The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
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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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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
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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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