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Michelangelo has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,…
• Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting…
• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
• Genius is infinite painstaking.
• Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
• Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
• In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude…
• For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God…
• A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
• I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
• Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
• 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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