Michelangelo Buonarroti was a renowned Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet during the Renaissance. He is celebrated for his exceptional artistic achievements and profound influence on the world.
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“An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.”
Source: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence
“True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.”
“Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.”
“Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.”
“Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.”
Source: The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella
“I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.”
“Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?”
Source: Essential Michelangelo
“However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.”
Source: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence
Source: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence
“Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.”
“I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.”
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
Source: Michelangelo: A Record of His Life as Told in His Own Letters and Papers
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”