"I criticise by creation, not by finding fault."
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"When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."
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"Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him"
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"The hand that follows intellect can achieve."
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"And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed."
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"I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are."
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"It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen."
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"The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine."
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"The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires."
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"Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure."
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"Serene I fold my hands and wait."
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"Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved"
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"Critique by creating."
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"Art is a shadow of Divine perfection."
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"Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom."
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"Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly."
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"No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death."
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"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius."
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