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Genius is eternal patience.

~Michelangelo

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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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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

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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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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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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 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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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Artist

Born: March 6th, 1475

Died: February 18th, 1564

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