"Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul."
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"Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth."
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
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"No great work of art is ever finished."
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"Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding."
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"Genius is eternal patience."
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"He who follows another will never overtake him"
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"Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly."
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"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."
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"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
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"Lord, make me see thy glory in every place."
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"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
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"If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius."
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"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."
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"Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?"
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"As you give out, so shall you receive."
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"I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for."
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"An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create."
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"An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye."
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"Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time."
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