"Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen."

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What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

— Michelangelo