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  • In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
  • When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

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  • Michelangelo A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Michelangelo Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Herbert J. Muller Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
    Herbert J. Muller
    American historian and author (1905 - 1980)
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  • Michelangelo Genius is eternal patience.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Michelangelo I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Michelangelo I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Martin Luther King If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Michelangelo If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Willem De Kooning In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • T. S. Eliot In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Michelangelo It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Michelangelo Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Camille Paglia Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for women and the lazy. His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Michelangelo 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.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Bob Ross Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Michelangelo Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Michelangelo 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 that the garment with which it is clothed?
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Francois Cavanna When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
    Francois Cavanna
    French journalist and writer (1923 - 2014)
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