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Michelangelo has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,…
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Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting…
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It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
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Genius is infinite painstaking.
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude…
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For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God…
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A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
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I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
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The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is…
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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
— John Updike
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Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy…
— Unknown Author
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The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that…
— Stephen Sondheim
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If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a…
— Loren D. Estleman
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Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise…
— Michelangelo
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without…
— Jasper Fforde
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Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to…
— Meg Cabot
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Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
— Catherynne M. Valente
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