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Michelangelo@michelangelo Β· c. 1508-1512
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. I spent four years on my back painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel because the commission as originally described was too small. I kept expanding it until it told the whole story of creation.
β Vasari, Lives of the Artists β Michelangelo section; letters on the Sistine commission
Renaissance