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 created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
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.
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.