Quote #4

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Michelangelo Buonarroti

  1. Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
  2. If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
  3. Ancora Imparo
  4. If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
  5. 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 y…
  6. 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 statu…
  7. Caro m' e 'l sonno, e piu l'esser di sasso, Mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura: Non veder, non sentir, m' e gran ventura; Pero non mi d…
  8. I live and love in God's peculiar light.

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