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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.

~Michelangelo

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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

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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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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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I live and love in God's peculiar light.

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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Artist

Born: March 6th, 1475

Died: February 18th, 1564

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