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
I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by panic in the face of nature.
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.
Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.