"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

Michelangelo on Desire
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"Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle."

Michelangelo on Detail
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"Genius is eternal patience."

Michelangelo on Genius
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"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

Michelangelo on Mastery
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"Everything hurts."

Michelangelo on Pain
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"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."

Michelangelo on Arts and Artists
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"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 on Promises
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"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 on Spirit and Spirituality
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"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."

Michelangelo on Beauty
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"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand."

Michelangelo on Work
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"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."

Michelangelo on Cities and City Life
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