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
One paints with one's head, not one's hand.
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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.
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
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
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
And still I am learning.
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.