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
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.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
Critique by creating.