Quote #10

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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  1. I live and love in God's peculiar light.
  2. What good I have comes from the pure air of your native Arezzo, and also because I sucked in chisels and hammers with my nurse's milk.
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  6. Criticize by creating
  7. If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
  8. Painting is not my art.

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