Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
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