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1475–1564 Italy
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.
Italy Architects Engineers Painters Poets Also known as: Buonarroti, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michael Angelo
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
The stone unhewn and cold
With chiseled touch
A quel pietoso fonte, onde siam tutti,
As when, O lady mine,
Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Misattributed
Recollect that trifles make perfection, and that perfection is no trifle.
Disputed without citation in Charles Caleb Colton (1822)
If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.
Disputed
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
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