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Michelangelo
6 quotes
“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.”
Michelangelo (1475–1564) first seen 1533 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Tommaso dei Cavalieri (1 January 1533).
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Michelangelo (1475–1564) first seen 1540 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Rene Lui Descartes XIV (6 March 1540)
“I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.”
Michelangelo (1475–1564) said by 1564 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in In Our Time : The Artist, BBC Radio 4 (28 March 2002).
“As when, O lady mine, With chiseled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mold, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.”
Michelangelo (1475–1564) said by 1564 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sonnet addressed to Vittoria Colonna; tr. Mrs. Henry Roscoe (Maria Fletcher Roscoe), Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems (1868), p. 169.
“A quel pietoso fonte, onde siam tutti, S'assembra ogni beltà che qua si vede, Più c'altra cosa alle persone accorte;”
Michelangelo (1475–1564) said by 1564 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by Luciano Rebay, Invitation to Italian Poetry (1969), p. 77
“As when, O lady mine! With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould. The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.”
Michelangelo (1475–1564) said by 1564 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source