"I live and love in God's peculiar light."
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"The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows."
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"A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking."
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"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand."
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"Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind."
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"Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this."
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"It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect."
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"The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem."
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"I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent."
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"If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another."
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"After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become."
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"With few words I shall make thee understand my soul."
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"Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle"
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"No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life."
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"Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven."
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"If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures."
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"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."
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"Genius is infinite painstaking."
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"Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?"
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"If the wine is not good, then throw it out!"
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