Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 March 6 - 1564 February 18*) was an Italian architect, painter , poet and sculptor .
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- 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 you, nor one to equal you. . . It grieves me greatly that I cannot recapture my past, so as to longer be at your service. As it is, I can only offer you my future, which is short, for I am too old. . . That is all I have to say. Read my heart for "the quill cannot express good will."
- In a letter to Tommaso dei Cavalieri dated 1533 January 1st
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- I live and love in God's peculiar light.
- I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- What good I have comes from the pure air of your native Arezzo, and also because I sucked in chisels and hammers with my nurse's milk.
- as said to his biographer Giorgio Vasari
- 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.
- Ancora Imparo
- Translation: I am still learning
- What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
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