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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo
Hope
Desire
May
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo
Love
Nature
Cities
Salvation
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo
Skin
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Michelangelo
Love
God
Light
I am still learning.
Michelangelo
Learning
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.
Michelangelo
Art
Life
God
Man
Order
Poor
Worth
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
Michelangelo
Life
Evil
Free will
Heaven
Sin
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo
Painting
Sculpture
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
Genius
Patience
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo
Delight
Pain
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
Faith
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Michelangelo
Beauty
Perception
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Michelangelo
Death
Love
Heaven
Man
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
Man
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo
Pain