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.
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Michelangelo
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About Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and e…
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Genius is eternal patience.
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
I am still learning.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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.
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
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.
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
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.
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
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.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, ho…
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.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.