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1. "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." ~ Michelangelo
2. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." ~ Michelangelo
3. "A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." ~ Michelangelo
4. "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." ~ Michelangelo
5. "Genius is eternal patience." ~ Michelangelo
6. "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?" ~ Michelangelo
7. "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." ~ Michelangelo
8. "I am still learning." ~ Michelangelo
9. "A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it." ~ Michelangelo
10. "Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven." ~ Michelangelo
11. "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." ~ Michelangelo
12. "Beauty is the purgation of superfluities." ~ Michelangelo
13. "O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,with peace you force all the restless work to end;those who exalt you see and understand,and he is sound of mind who honours you.You cut the thread of tired thoughts, for soyou offer calm in your moist shade; you sendto this low sphere the dreams where we ascendup to the highest, where I long to go.Shadow of death that brings to quiet closeall miseries that plague the heart and soul,for those in pain the last and best of cures;you heal the flesh of its infirmities,dry and our tears and shut away our toil,and free the good from wrath and fretting cares." ~ Michelangelo
14. "Critique by creating." ~ Michelangelo
15. "AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE." ~ Michelangelo
16. "Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don't waste time." ~ Michelangelo
17. "If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me." ~ Michelangelo
18. "But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy ... [and that] certain limbs or elements of a figure are altered by borrowing from other species, for example transforming into a dolphin the hinder end of a griffon or a stag ... these alterations will be excellent and the substitution, however unreal it may seem, deserves to be declared a fine invention in the genre of the monstrous.When a painter introduces into this kind of work of art chimerae and other imaginary beings in order to divert and entertain the senses and also to captivate the eyes of mortals who long to see unclassified and impossible things, he shows himself more respectful of reason than if he produced the usual figures of men or of animals." ~ Michelangelo
19. "If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius." ~ Michelangelo
20. "With few words I shall make thee understand my soul." ~ Michelangelo
21. "Ancora imparo." ~ Michelangelo
22. "Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,While pain and guilt still linger here below,Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;Then do not wake me, keep your voices low." ~ Michelangelo
23. "Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent." ~ Michelangelo
24. "Patience is eternal genius" ~ Michelangelo
25. "So now, from this mad passionWhich made me take art for an idol and a kingI have learnt the burden of error that it boreAnd what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the timeThat I was given for reflecting upon God." ~ Michelangelo
26. "Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?" ~ Michelangelo
27. "Ancora Imparo(Yet I am learning)" ~ Michelangelo
28. "Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." ~ Michelangelo
29. "If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master." ~ Michelangelo
30. "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
31. "I live and love in God's peculiar light." ~ Michelangelo
32. "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." ~ Michelangelo
33. "My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness." ~ Michelangelo
34. "Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come." ~ Michelangelo
35. "The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has." ~ Michelangelo
36. "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." ~ Michelangelo
37. "Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture." ~ Michelangelo
38. "As when, O lady mine,With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould,The more the marble wastes,The more the statue grows." ~ Michelangelo

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