Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoniwas an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Considered to be the greatest living artist during his lifetime, he has since also been described as one of the greatest artists of all time. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth6 March 1475
CityCaprese, Italy
CountryItaly
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
No great work of art is ever finished.
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.