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If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.

— Michelangelo Disputed

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Earliest known citation is a Usenet post from August 2001. No source is given. Possibly a variant of the preceding longer-established quote.

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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows.

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