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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
Michelangelo
Explaining why the Virgin Mary in the Pietà looks so young

Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
Michelangelo
To his biographer Condivi

I already have a wife who is too much for me; she is my art, and my works are my children.
Michelangelo
On why he hadn't married, quoted in his complete poems and selected letters

I am still learning.
Michelangelo

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
Michelangelo

I live shut up here, like the doughy middle inside the bread crust, poor and all alone, like a genie shut up inside a bottle.
Michelangelo
From a poem written by Michelangelo

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Michelangelo - Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. Born 1475. Died 1564.