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
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?
Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend
You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his.
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.