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" Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts. "
Michelangelo
Divine
Even
Disdain
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" Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. "
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" I am still learning. "
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" Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. "
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" If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. "
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" The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. "
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" Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. "
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" Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. "
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" It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. "
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" Genius is eternal patience. "
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" I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. "
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" The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. "
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" Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. "
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Death
Man
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" I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. "
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Pressures
Alone
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" What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? "
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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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Hand
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" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "
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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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Hope
Age
God
" Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. "
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Safest
Course
Oneself
" Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. "
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Desire
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" I live and love in God's peculiar light. "
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" A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. "
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Hear
" The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. "
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" The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. "
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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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Myself
Live
Life
" I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. "
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Man
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" There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. "
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Harm
" If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. "
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