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| I live and love in God's peculiar light. |
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| I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. |
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| Michelangelo |
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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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| Michelangelo |
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| It grieves me greatly that I cannot recapture my past.. I can only offer you my future, which is short, for I am too old. |
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| Michelangelo |
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| Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. |
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| Michelangelo |
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| Genius is eternal patience. |
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| Michelangelo |
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| 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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| Michelangelo |
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| Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. |
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| Michelangelo |
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| The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. |
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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 people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. |
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| Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. |
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