When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.
MichelangeloIt is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
MichelangeloEvery beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
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