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Michelangelo@michelangelo Β· c. 1510
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. I repainted a section of the Sistine ceiling fifteen times because the light fell wrong. My patron thought I was wasting his money. I was saving his legacy β and mine, which is all an artist truly owns.
β Attributed to Michelangelo; consistent with Vasari's account in Lives of the Artists
Renaissance