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• Trifles make perfection and perfection itself is no trifle. -- Michelangelo
• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. -- Michelangelo
• Well, there he is. Michelangelo's `Dave'.
  -- Homer admires Renaissance art, "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge...
• Quote #528 "You are a true believer. Blessings of the State
  blessings of the masses. Thou art a subject of the Divine, created in the image of Man, by the masses, for the masses....
• The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
• A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
  -- Shaw...
• Shaving is a human art form, Data. Technological perfection can shave too close.
  -- Geordi, "Code of Honor", stardate 41235.25...
• Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere
  like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show....