#michelangelo

Neither painting nor sculpture can any longer soothe. My soul turned to that Divine love. Who opened his arms upon the cross to take us. ↗

— Michelangelo

#expression #michelangelo #art

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#michelangelo #genius

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. ↗

— Andrew Denton

#art #earth #even #greater #literature

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#evaluate #everybody #fact #intellectual #italy