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
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.
The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.
As you give out, so shall you receive.
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.
No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
He who follows another will never overtake him
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.