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Michelangelo
Geburtstag: 6. März 1475
Todesdatum: 18. Februar 1564
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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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„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.
„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
„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 [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 1929], 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 [https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.guitar.beginner/1Vdr9hO_g_g/grDd5GE99SEJ Usenet post from August 2001]. No source is given. Possibly a variant of the preceding longer-established quote.
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