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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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„Critique by creating.“
„Your lordship, only worldly light in this age of ours, you can never be pleased with another man’s work for there is no man who resembles you, nor one to equal you … It grieves me greatly that I cannot recapture my past, so as to longer be at your service. As it is, I can only offer you my future, which is short, for I am too old … That is all I have to say. Read my heart for “the quill cannot express good will.”“
„Translation:That fount of mercy, whence we all exist,Every beauty seen here [on earth] resembles,More than anything else to knowing persons;“
„As when, O lady mine,With chiseled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mold,The more the marble wastes,The more the statue grows.“
„What do you despise? By this you are truly known.“
„I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.“
„If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.“
„Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.“
„Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.“
„Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.“
„With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.“
„Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.“
„If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.“
„The greatest artist does not have any conceptWhich a single piece of marble does not itself containWithin its excess, though onlyA hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.“
„The true work of artis but a shadow of the divine perfection“
„A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.“
„If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it’s that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.“
„I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.“
„Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it“
„Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.“
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