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Michelangelo Buonarroti was a medieval Italian artist and architect. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. Read more on Wikipedia →

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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.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
hard-work mastery wonderful work

“AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
inspirational spirituality

“No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
death

“But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy ... [and that] certain limbs or elements of a figure are altered by borrowing from other spe...”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
fantasy grotesque imagination monstrous

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
aspirations confidence dreams goals

“If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
love poetry
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