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Michelangelo

Italian Renaissance sculptor and painter who created the David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Also designed St. Peter's Basilica dome; lived 1475–1564.

4 quotes

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangeloart
The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.
Michelangeloart
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelospirituality
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangeloart

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

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