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«Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend»
Author: Michelangelo
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«Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly.»
Author: Michelangelo
«Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.»
Author: Michelangelo
«It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.»
Author: Michelangelo
«Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.»
Author: Michelangelo
«After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.»
Author: Michelangelo
«The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include; to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do.»
«Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.»
«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.»
Author: Michelangelo
«From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.»
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