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" I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. "
Michelangelo
Never
Nature
Love
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" There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. "
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" Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. "
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" The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. "
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" Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. "
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" The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. "
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" I am still learning. "
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Still
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" Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. "
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" Genius is eternal patience. "
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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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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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" Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. "
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" I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. "
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Alone
Cannot
" A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. "
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" Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts. "
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Even
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" It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. "
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" From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. "
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" Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. "
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Art
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" I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. "
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Marble
Free
Angel
" Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. "
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Stone
Task
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" The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. "
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Work
Art
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" What do you despise? By this you are truly known. "
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You
Known
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" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "
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