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If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

More from Michelangelo Buonarroti

  1. If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
  2. As when, O lady mine! With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould. The more the marble wastes, The more the statu…
  3. I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
  4. 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…
  5. Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
  6. I live and love in God's peculiar light.
  7. Ancora Imparo
  8. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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Topics in this quote

  • work
  • effort
  • genius
  • perception
  • talent

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