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Michelangelo

Geburtstag: 6. März 1475
Todesdatum: 18. Februar 1564

Michelangelo Buonarroti [mikeˈlanʤelo buonarˈrɔːti], oft nur Michelangelo , war ein italienischer Maler, Bildhauer, Architekt und Dichter. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Künstler der italienischen Hochrenaissance und weit darüber hinaus.

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„Je vollkommener, desto mehr Schmerzen.“

— Michelangelo
Sonette, über Dante

Über Schmerzen

„Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.“

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

„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.“

— Michelangelo Buonarroti
Attributed without citation in Ken Robinson, The Element (2009), p. 260. Widely attributed to Michelangelo since the late 1990s, this adage has not been found before 1980 when it appeared without attribution in E. C. McKenzie, Mac's giant book of quips & quotes.

„I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.“

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

„The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.“

— Michelangelo Buonarroti, I Sonetti Di Michelangelo: The 78 Sonnets of Michelangelo with Verse Translation

„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

„If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.“

— Michelangelo Buonarroti
Found attributed to Michelangelo in non-specialist publications as early as 1929 https://books.google.com/books?id=-0YhAQAAMAAJ&dq=If+people+knew+how+hard+I+had+to+work+to+gain+my+mastery%2C+it+would+not+seem+so+wonderful+at+all.&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=michelangelo, but no source is known. Not found in any known biography of Michelangelo.

„If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.“

— Michelangelo Buonarroti
On the paintings in the Sistine Chapel, as quoted in Speeches & Presentations Unzipped (2007) by Lori Rozakis, p. 71. Earliest known citation is a Usenet post from August 2001 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.guitar.beginner/1Vdr9hO_g_g/grDd5GE99SEJ. No source is given. Possibly a variant of the preceding longer-established quote.