"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
"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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Source: Michelangelo Buonarroti, E. H. Ramsden (1963). “The Letters of Michelangelo”, p.129, Stanford University Press
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