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“I think … the greater danger for most of us is not in aiming too high and falling short, but in aiming too low and hitting the mark.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“A drop of ocean water had the ambition to rise high into the air. So, with the help of fire, it rose as vapor, but when it flew so high that the air turned cold, it froze and fell from the sky as rain. The parched soil drank up the little drop and imprisoned it for a long time: punishment for its greedy ambition. You’re”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience,” Michelangelo”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“Chaos erupting into beauty. That’s art.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“think … the greater danger for most of us is not in aiming too high and falling short, but in aiming too low and hitting the mark.” “I”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“My interests don’t distract me from my art, but feed it. Music feeds math feeds science feeds painting. The only way to create something unique is to make connections between seemingly disparate things. If I focus only on art, my art will die.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“The desperate brutality of men grasping for power is one of the universe’s great idiocies.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“But if machines, and only machines, were responsible for duplicating images, human connection would disappear altogether. Humanity would be destroyed.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“Donatello”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“With the explosion of books, people were more likely to rely on the theories of other men instead of learning from their own experiences. That path led to the regurgitation of old ideas, not newly formed thoughts. With a large library, people would no longer memorize facts, but look up whatever they wanted to know in a book.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“Simplicity was the ultimate sophistication, the path to true complexity.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“We are like lovers, aren’t we, we artists?” Michelangelo dragged his fingers across the rough stone. “Timid at first, skeptical about what we might find beneath the surface, but the more time we spend with the objects of our desire, the more we start to understand them. We find their flaws but also their possibilities. And when we connect, our hearts beat in time, and when we speak, our voices come from one mouth. Through love, we dialogue with our own souls.” Michelangelo opened”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“Patience protects us against insults just as clothes against the cold.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“I don’t choose to be alone. I just am. – Michelangelo”
― Stephanie Storey, Raphael, Painter in Rome

“In oils, a perfect brushstroke is all about blending layers. No wonder oils are so good at capturing life: like people, oil paintings are created by blending together weeks, months, years of layer, after unexpected later. – Raphael”
― Stephanie Storey, Raphael, Painter in Rome

“Love defies planning, doesn’t it? There is no reason and no answer and no rhyme that can recreate it. But in an instant we feel it, a tingle on top of our heads, down our necks, into our fingertips. And we don’t know why or how it’s there, but it is, existing because of us, in spite of us. We don’t know what it is. We don’t know, and in the very act of not knowing, we feel everything.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“Michelangelo opened his eyes and stared into the gray stone. “Love defies planning, doesn’t it? There is no reason and no answer and no rhyme that can recreate it. But in an instant we feel it, a tingle on top of our heads, down our necks, into our fingertips. And we don’t know why or how it’s there, but it is, existing because of us, in spite of us. We don’t know what it is. We don’t know, and in the very act of not knowing, we feel everything.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“My mother always told me that to succeed in this world, walk like you know where you’re going, and why — especially if you’re afraid. – Raphael”
― Stephanie Storey, Raphael, Painter in Rome

“Donatello’s bronze Judith and Holofernes was one of the most beloved statues in all of Florence, depicting the moment when the widow Judith, sword raised, stood over the unconscious Holofernes, about to decapitate him and save her people from tyranny. It was an exhilarating composition, a symbol of the weak triumphing over the strong.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“His injuries were his own fault. He had forgotten his own philosophy: there was always time to stop and think.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“Those who long to hold onto their belongings forever are misguided.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“When fearful, people would give up their money, their land, even their freedom, all to protect their security, which, ironically, could never actually be protected.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“If you can get someone to do one favor, it’s easier to extract another and another.”
― Stephanie Storey, Raphael, Painter in Rome

“The body is a reflection of the soul; the more moral a person, the more beautiful – Michelangelo”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble

“Handsomeness without cleanliness is wasted. - Mother of Raphael”
― Stephanie Storey, Raphael, Painter in Rome

“I once was what you are, and what I am will be also. - Masaccio”
― Stephanie Storey, Raphael, Painter in Rome

“like people, oil paintings are created by blending together weeks, months, years of layer after unexpected layer.”
― Stephanie Storey, Raphael, Painter in Rome

“The water you touch in a river is the last of what has passed and the first of that which is to come. Just like time.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“Michelangelo considered his words. “I think … the greater danger for most of us is not in aiming too high and falling short, but in aiming too low and hitting the mark.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“The danger for most of us isn’t in setting or sights too high and missing them, but in setting them too low and hitting our mark . - Michelangelo”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble