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“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”

Work Wonderful Hard Work Mastery

Author:Michelangelo Buonarroti

“The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.”

Book:I Sonetti Di Michelangelo: The 78 Sonnets of Michelangelo with Verse Translation

Source: I Sonetti Di Michelangelo: The 78 Sonnets of Michelangelo with Verse Translation

“Precious is sleep, better to be of stone, while the oppression and the shame still last; not seeing and not hearing, I am blest; so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.”

Book:Complete Poems and Selected Letters

Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters