Duccio Quotes & Sayings
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Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me. — Daniel Kahneman

Michelangelo wasn't the artist who began the sculpture - in fact, he hadn't even been born when it was commissioned. The nineteen-foot block of marble had originally been the project of an artist named Agostino di Duccio, but after shaping some of the legs, feet, and torso, he inexplicably abandoned the work. Ten years later, an artist named Antonio Rossellino was hired to complete it, but his contract was subsequently cancelled. It was nearly twenty-five years before Michelangelo, just twenty-six, picked up a chisel and dared to believe he could complete a masterpiece. — Lysa TerKeurst

Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me. — Siri Hustvedt

My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself. — Felicia Day

[W]orship, if not the child, is at least
the brother, of fear. — Will Durant

That just seems to be the way we're built. — Irvin D. Yalom

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit. — Patti Smith

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union. — Alexander Haig