Michelangelo

(348 votes)   Everything hurts.

Michelangelo
1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter, Sculptor

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(230 votes)   Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Michelangelo
1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter, Sculptor

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(97 votes)   Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

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(73 votes)   Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

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(49 votes)   There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

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(30 votes)   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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(29 votes)   I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.

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(28 votes)   I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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(28 votes)   I live and love in God's peculiar light.

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(27 votes)   Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

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(27 votes)   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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(25 votes)   From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

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(25 votes)   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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(23 votes)   Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

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(23 votes)   Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.

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