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Serene I fold my hands and wait.
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
Architect
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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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Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
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A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.
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There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
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No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
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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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I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
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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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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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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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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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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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Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
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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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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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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 marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
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