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Michelangelo

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


— Michelangelo


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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 mark.


— Michelangelo


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Genius is eternal patience.


— Michelangelo


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It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.


— Michelangelo


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Neither painting nor sculpture can any longer soothe. My soul turned to that Divine love. Who opened his arms upon the cross to take us.


— Michelangelo


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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.


— Michelangelo


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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.


— Michelangelo


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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.


— 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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I am still learning.


— Michelangelo


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According to Condivi Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici for whom Michelangelo had sculpted St. Last sketch found
On 7 December 2007 Michelangelo's red chalk sketch for the dome of St Peter's Basilica his last before his death in 1564 was discovered in the Vatican archives. It is also during this period that skeptics allege Michelangelo executed the sculpture Laocoön and His Sons which resides in the Vatican.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) commonly known as Michelangelo (Italian pronunciation: [mikeˈlandʒelo]) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor painter architect poet and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Two of his best-known works the Pietà and David were sculpted before he turned thirty.

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