Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.Michelangelo
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
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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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