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
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
Critique by creating.