Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
"He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?"
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"He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?"
Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
"Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]"
Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
"From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born?"
Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
"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."
Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
"It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out."
Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
"An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours."
Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
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