![]() ![]() The anecdote of Michelangelo "seeing the angel" is related in Ambition: A Journal of Inspiration to Self Help (January 1916), Volume 11 Issue 1 and in Walter Clemow Lanyon, London Notes and Lectures (1928), p. Widely attributed but of uncertain provenance.I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.Translated by Christopher Ryan, The poetry of Michelangelo: An Introduction (1988), p.To those who are wise, nothing more resembles that merciful spring whence all derive than every beauty to be found here.Translated by Luciano Rebay, Invitation to Italian Poetry (1969), p.More than anything else to knowing persons ![]() That fount of mercy, whence we all exist,Įvery beauty seen here resembles, (from sonnet "Veggio nel tuo bel viso, Signor mio").Henry Roscoe (Maria Fletcher Roscoe), Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems (1868), p. Sonnet addressed to Vittoria Colonna tr.As quoted in In Our Time : The Artist, BBC Radio 4 (28 March 2002).I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.As quoted in Character Sketches: Or, The Blackboard Mirror (1890) by George Augustus Lofton, p.Letter to Rene Lui Descartes XIV (6 March 1540).Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.Letter to Tommaso dei Cavalieri (1 January 1533).Read my heart for "the quill cannot express good will." 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. 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.Quotes The Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, c. ![]()
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