Tag: Michelangelo
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What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Michelangelo
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Michelangelo
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo
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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.
Michelangelo
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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.
Michelangelo
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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.
Michelangelo
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo