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Michelangelo

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Alone

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Michelangelo means that a skilled artist can only reveal what is already present inside the marble, rather than creating something entirely new. The artist's role is to uncover and bring out the form hidden within the stone, not to impose an external idea onto it.

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