"I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope."
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"Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility."
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"Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man."
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"I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children."
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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."
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"If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me."
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"He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture."
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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
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"Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour."
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"A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection"
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"Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!"
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"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
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"Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed."
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"You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his."
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"Patience is eternal genius"
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"What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not."
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"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."
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"For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony."
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"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him."
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"And still I am learning."
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