Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes on Art
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
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I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
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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 statue grows.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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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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Criticize by creating
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Painting is not my art.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.