Italian - Artist | March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo
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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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What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
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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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It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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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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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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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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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
YouDivineEvenDisdainMale
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
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