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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.


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MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
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MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)
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