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
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
Genius is eternal patience.
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
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.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Patience is eternal genius
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.
But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.