How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement. - Michelangelo
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How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?
Se duc genii si durere, mor cuvinte si placere, generatii sub tacere, fum in vant, sub soare umbra.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it