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Beauty Is The Purgation Of Superfluities.

If You Knew How Much Work Went Into It, You Wouldn't Call It Genius.

So Now, From This Mad Passion Which Made Me Take Art For An Idol And A King I Have Learnt The Burden Of Error That It Bore And What Misfortune Springs From Man's Desire... The World's Frivolities Have Robbed Me Of The Time That I Was Given For Reflecting Upon God.

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.

The More The Marble Wastes, The More The Statue Grows.