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
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.
Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle
Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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.
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
One paints with one's head, not one's hand.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Nature did all things well