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Quotes by Michelangelo
- I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
- I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
- I am still learning.
- I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
- I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
- I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
- I live and love in God's peculiar light.
- I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
- I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
- If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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