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Michelangelo

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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.


— Michelangelo


#cannot #i #live #paint #patrons

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.


— Michelangelo


#cities #felt #i #i love #love

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?


— Michelangelo


#blind #cannot #clothed #empty #fact

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.


— Michelangelo


#hand #i #me #only #well

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.


— Michelangelo


#artists #best #conception #contain #does

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.


— Michelangelo


#block #conception #contain #does #greatest

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.


— Michelangelo


#carved #every #form #greatest #greatest artist

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.


— Michelangelo


#marbles #more #statue #wastes

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.


— Michelangelo


#brains #hands #his #man #paints






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According to Condivi Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici for whom Michelangelo had sculpted St. Last sketch found
On 7 December 2007 Michelangelo's red chalk sketch for the dome of St Peter's Basilica his last before his death in 1564 was discovered in the Vatican archives. It is also during this period that skeptics allege Michelangelo executed the sculpture Laocoön and His Sons which resides in the Vatican.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) commonly known as Michelangelo (Italian pronunciation: [mikeˈlandʒelo]) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor painter architect poet and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Two of his best-known works the Pietà and David were sculpted before he turned thirty.

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