A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?""Indignation, " said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

Wisdom is the ability to read the unwritten.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it it's too far to walk back.

I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin

If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.

The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.

The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.