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Michelangelo

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

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"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
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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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"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."
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"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived."
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"Genius is eternal patience."
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"I live and love in God's peculiar light."
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"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
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"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
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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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"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."
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