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“I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.”

Michelangelo · Loneliness

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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.

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If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

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Genius is eternal patience.

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

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