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Quotes of the Week - January 17, 2012:
"Our campaign is about more than replacing a President. It is about saving the soul of America." -- Republican Mitt Romney, US presidential hopeful, after winning New Hampshire primary.

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down to your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up." -- Professor Stephen Hawking on his 70th birthday.

"American children had never seen a moving bosom before." -- Actress Celia Imrie on the alarm caused by her low-cut dress in Nanny McPhee.

Authors: Michelangelo Quotes, Famous Michelangelo Quotes Quotations

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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo

I told Your Holiness that painting is not my art; what I have done is spoiled.
Michelangelo
Telling the Pope that the painting of the Sistine Chapel had gone wrong

I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.
Michelangelo
On completing ceiling of Sistine Chapel

If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
Michelangelo

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

Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.
Michelangelo
From a letter to his father, October 1512 as he finishes the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

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

The best artist has that thought alone
Which is contained within the marble shell;
The sculptor's hand can only break the spell
To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo

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Michelangelo - Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. Born 1475. Died 1564.

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