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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…
  2. Painting is not my art.
  3. 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.
  4. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
  5. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
  6. What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
  7. I live and love in God's peculiar light.
  8. Caro m' e 'l sonno, e piu l'esser di sasso, Mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura: Non veder, non sentir, m' e gran ventura; Pero non mi d…

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