Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. — Quoted

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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”

Michelangelo · Death

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Michelangelo

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.

Art

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.

Loneliness

Michelangelo

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.

Beauty

Michelangelo

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Art