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title: "105 Michelangelo Quotes by 67 authors"
description: "Browse 105 Michelangelo quotes by 67 authors. Discover the best Michelangelo sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be3/jarod-kintz-2_michelangelo_the-mountains-are-where-god-proves-he-s_645180.jpg"
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> [“The mountains are where God proves He’s better than Michelangelo at sculpting.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jarod-kintz/the-mountains-are-where-god-proves-he-s-better-than-michelangelo-at/)

[Jarod Kintz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jarod-kintz/)

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> [The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-made-italy-from-designs-by-michelangelo/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [“not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-lynch/not-that-our-aim-is-too-high-and-we-miss-it-but-that-it-is-too-low/)

Tony Lynch

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> [Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fuseli/tintoretto-attempted-to-fill-the-line-of-michelangelo-with-color/)

[Henry Fuseli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-fuseli/)

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> [“With his genius, Michelangelo built many bridges of the spirit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/with-his-genius-michelangelo-built-many-bridges-of-the-spirit/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

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> [ “driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" \[the character of Michelangelo\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miles-j-unger/driven-passionate-mercurial-irascible-the-character-of-michelangelo/)

Miles J. Unger

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> [You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/you-are-the-michelangelo-of-your-own-life-the-david-you-are-sculpting/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oleg-cassini/you-might-say-that-i-m-the-michelangelo-of-the-dress-business/)

[Oleg Cassini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oleg-cassini/)

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> [“imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-patrick/imagination-though-michelangelo-said-he-saw-angels-in-the-marble-and/)

[Sean Patrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-patrick/)

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> [Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gianni-versace/even-michelangelo-got-paid-for-doing-the-sistine-chapel-to-those/)

[Gianni Versace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gianni-versace/)

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> [“You can readily see the contrast in style between Michelangelo’s statues of David and also of St. Matthew.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hourly-history/you-can-readily-see-the-contrast-in-style-between-michelangelo-s/)

Hourly History

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> [I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-bird/i-m-not-michelangelo-but-i-would-like-to-be-that-i-ll-never-be-him/)

[Brian Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-bird/)

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> [“...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miles-j-unger/michelangelo-transformed-both-the-practice-of-art-and-our-conception/)

Miles J. Unger

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> [“Adam'e arm reaching towards God. When I first stood in the Sistine Chapel I wondered if Michelangelo was aware of his blasphemy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/adam-e-arm-reaching-towards-god-when-i-first-stood-in-the-sistine/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-cezanne/michelangelo-is-a-constructor-and-rafael-an-artist-who-great-as-he-is/)

[Paul Cezanne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-cezanne/)

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> [When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/when-the-bright-angel-dominates-out-comes-a-great-work-of-art-a/)

[Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/)

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> [How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/how-could-michelangelo-have-seen-his-david-in-a-block-of-marble-man/)

[Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/)

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> [The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheena-iyengar/the-great-artist-michelangelo-claimed-that-his-sculptures-were/)

[Sheena Iyengar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheena-iyengar/)

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> [“My object in The Prince was to show defeated Italy a model of her savior, a man as perfect in the bold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ennis/my-object-in-the-prince-was-to-show-defeated-italy-a-model-of-her/)

[Michael Ennis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ennis/)

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> [“The story is told of Michelangelo being asked about his methods for sculpting. He replied simply that he worked on a block…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-duchemin/the-story-is-told-of-michelangelo-being-asked-about-his-methods-for/)

[David duChemin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-duchemin/)

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> [“You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it’s still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristen-ashley/you-love-a-job-no-matter-how-hard-it-is-it-s-still-easy-not-sure/)

[Kristen Ashley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristen-ashley/)

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> [“Michelangelo’s genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/michelangelo-s-genius-was-in-allowing-the-viewer-to-see-a-great-deal/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

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> [“Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-l-alder/don-t-say-you-don-t-have-enough-time-or-enough-money-to-change-the/)

[Shannon L. Alder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-l-alder/)

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> [You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-turow/you-know-my-mom-who-inspired-me-to-be-a-novelist-i-remember-her/)

[Scott Turow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-turow/)

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> [“the original commission for the ceiling was a plan designed by the pope and his closest advisers. Jesus was to have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/the-original-commission-for-the-ceiling-was-a-plan-designed-by-the/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

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> [“Leonardo da Vinci and the much younger Michelangelo had often made it clear that they had no respect for each other’s craft.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/leonardo-da-vinci-and-the-much-younger-michelangelo-had-often-made-it/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

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> [This man painted the inside of a very big church in Italy. One of his giant paintings there is called The Creation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babloo/this-man-painted-the-inside-of-a-very-big-church-in-italy-one-of-his/)

[Babloo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/babloo/)

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> [“In Jewish tradition, we find the cautionary adage “Be in the world, but not of the world.” In the Gospels, Jesus says:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/in-jewish-tradition-we-find-the-cautionary-adage-be-in-the-world-but/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

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> [“How to maintain the proper mood and not bore the congregation to sleep? Art was the answer. But not just pretty pictures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/how-to-maintain-the-proper-mood-and-not-bore-the-congregation-to/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

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> [One of the big lies told about God is the one that says that God is a man. We know about ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babloo/one-of-the-big-lies-told-about-god-is-the-one-that-says-that-god-is-a/)

[Babloo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/babloo/)

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> [“Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player's prowess is sorely mistaken.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eduardo-galeano/whoever-believes-physical-size-and-tests-of-speed-or-strength-have/)

[Eduardo Galeano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eduardo-galeano/)

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> [“Like Michelangelo spending eight months in the mountains of Carrara, selecting the most perfect blocks of marble for the tomb of Pope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/like-michelangelo-spending-eight-months-in-the-mountains-of-carrara/)

[Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/)

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> [“sit well with Michelangelo. The project seemed like a series of insurmountable challenges: •​It would be the largest fresco on earth—there would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/sit-well-with-michelangelo-the-project-seemed-like-a-series-of/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/807/benjamin-blech-5721_art_sit-well-with-michelangelo-the-project-s_1256474.png)

> [“To Giovanni da Pistoia Michelangelo, translated from the Italian by Joel Agee \| 144 words (On painting the vault of the Sistine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/to-giovanni-da-pistoia-michelangelo-translated-from-the-italian-by/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c8/anonymous-1_good-place_to-giovanni-da-pistoia-michelangelo-tran_278811.jpg)

> [“The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-adams/the-room-was-not-a-room-to-elevate-the-soul-louis-xiv-to-pick-a-name/)

[Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-adams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75e/douglas-adams-122_artist_the-room-was-not-a-room-to-elevate-the-s_1512422.jpg)

> [“Still, the rebellious artist had placed a minor Jewish prophet in the important spot where the pope had wanted Jesus. How did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/still-the-rebellious-artist-had-placed-a-minor-jewish-prophet-in-the/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

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> [“Leonardo was renowned as a painter, and Michelangelo (thanks to his Battle of the Centaurs and the David) was known for portraying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/leonardo-was-renowned-as-a-painter-and-michelangelo-thanks-to-his/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/455/benjamin-blech-5721_artist_leonardo-was-renowned-as-a-painter-and-m_1833417.png)

> [“In 1510 the pope ordered the scaffolding dismantled and the first part of the fresco displayed to an eager public. The ecstatic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/in-1510-the-pope-ordered-the-scaffolding-dismantled-and-the-first/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/222/benjamin-blech-5721_art_in-1510-the-pope-ordered-the-scaffolding_443524.jpg)

> [“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/homer-in-the-second-book-of-the-iliad-says-with-fine-enthusiasm-give/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/in-the-room-the-women-come-and-go-talking-of-michelangelo/)

[T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/)

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## Top authors on Michelangelo

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                        "text": "I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.",
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                        "text": "“Adam'e arm reaching towards God. When I first stood in the Sistine Chapel I wondered if Michelangelo was aware of his blasphemy. Who even noticed God when naked Adam lolled so sensually?”",
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                        "text": "Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.",
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                        "text": "How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.",
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                        "text": "The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything else. Our understanding of identity is often similar: Beneath the many layers of shoulds and shouldn’ts that cover us, there lies a constant, single, true self that is just waiting to be discovered.",
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                        "text": "“My object in The Prince was to show defeated Italy a model of her savior, a man as perfect in the bold acquisition of power as Michelangelo Buonarroti’s great marble David is a perfect illustration of the human form and divine spirit. Just as Michelangelo did not portray David the murderer and adulterer, I did not represent the entirety of the man I took as my model.”",
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                        "text": "“You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it’s still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could be wrong, but I reckon Michelangelo didn’t wake up and think, ‘Fuck, I gotta drag my ass outta bed. More painting at the Sistine Chapel. Wish that shit was done so I could get to a fuckin’ beach.”",
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                        "text": "You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.",
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                        "text": "“the original commission for the ceiling was a plan designed by the pope and his closest advisers. Jesus was to have been the focal point of the project, surrounded by his apostles and probably also Mary and John the Baptist. This commission was especially dear to the pope’s heart, since the chapel had originally been built by his uncle Sixtus IV and would be an eternal monument to their family’s glory. Now Michelangelo was about to subvert the entire project to secretly promote his own beliefs, especially those of humanism, Neoplatonism, and universal tolerance. He had already somewhat appeased the pope with his ploy of putting him in the place of Jesus—but how was he going to get the pope to pay for the world’s largest Catholic fresco without a single Christian figure in it?”",
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                        "text": "“Leonardo da Vinci and the much younger Michelangelo had often made it clear that they had no respect for each other’s craft. Leonardo disparaged the new trend for portraying overly muscular male nudes—he said it was like looking at “sacks filled with nuts”—and unfavorably compared the messy, noisy workshop of a sculptor where everything and everyone was covered in marble chips, dust, and sweat with the quiet, clean, orderly studio of a painter “where one can listen to fine music” while working. Michelangelo, on the other hand, made no effort to disguise his dislike for the two-dimensional “falsity” of painting.”",
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                        "text": "This man painted the inside of a very big church in Italy. One of his giant paintings there is called The Creation of Adam. He painted an old man with grey hair with his hand stretched out. Next to the old man he painted a young man with his hand stretched out to the old man. Their fingers almost touch. If you look in some encyclopedias they say Michelangelo showed God giving Adam the spark of life. To paint this is blasphemy. To write this is blasphemy. To believe this is blasphemy.",
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                        "text": "“In Jewish tradition, we find the cautionary adage “Be in the world, but not of the world.” In the Gospels, Jesus says: “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God that which is God’s” (Matthew 22:21). Michelangelo was deeply troubled by a Church that was trying to imitate the grandeur of the Caesars while ignoring the humility and poverty of Christ. He recognized that the Vatican had become a place of unbridled corruption, greed, nepotism, and military adventurism. No longer was spiritual leadership concerned with delineating the differences between the “One” and the “seventy.” And so Michelangelo dared to express his anger by way of the angry prophet Jeremiah, who predicted doom for precisely those who failed to heed this very message. Of course, it was an extremely dangerous and seditious statement.”",
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                        "text": "“How to maintain the proper mood and not bore the congregation to sleep? Art was the answer. But not just pretty pictures that required only a short glance. It had to be art that would serve as an ever-unfolding, mesmerizing element of the religious ambience. That is another reason that the art in Michelangelo’s day was so complex—it had to bear hundreds of repeated viewings of long duration. The audience had to believe that it was always possible to discover in it new meanings and insights.”",
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                        "text": "One of the big lies told about God is the one that says that God is a man. We know about ourselves how weak and imperfect we are and yet still some ignorant people think that God is a man. One of the very ignorant people is a man who was named Michelangelo. In school, teachers might tell you that he was the greatest artist of all time, but in the opinion of a believer he is a very harmful man who continues to harm people today with what he did.",
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                        "text": "“Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player's prowess is sorely mistaken. Just as mistaken as those who believe that IQ tests have anything to do with talent or that there is a relationship between penis size and sexual pleasure. Good soccer players need not to be titans sculpted by Michelangelo. In soccer, ability is much more important than shape, and in many cases skill is the art of turning limitations into virtues.”",
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                        "text": "“Like Michelangelo spending eight months in the mountains of Carrara, selecting the most perfect blocks of marble for the tomb of Pope Julius II, Françoise, who attached extreme importance to the inherent quality of the materials out of which her masterpieces were to be wrought, had been down to Les Halles in person more than once to choose the finest slabs of rump steak, the best shin of beef and calf’s foot. She threw herself so strenuously into this pursuit that my mother, seeing our old servant turn red in the face, feared that, as the sculptor of the Medici tombs had sickened in the quarries at Pietrasanta, she might make herself ill from overwork. (p. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, 17)”",
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                        "text": "“sit well with Michelangelo. The project seemed like a series of insurmountable challenges: •​It would be the largest fresco on earth—there would be more than twelve thousand square feet to cover. •​He had never frescoed before. •​His competition would be staring him in the face every day—the Moses and Jesus wall panels, world-class masterpieces created by the top fresco artists in the world—including his own first maestro, Ghirlandaio. When and if he ever finished the ceiling, his beginner’s work would be compared with these. •​The chapel was in constant use, more than twenty times per month. The scaffolding could not be of the traditional kind, which would require too much wood and thus block up the chapel and render it unusable for years. •​The pope’s rigid and unimaginative concept for the ceiling stood against everything Michelangelo believed in, both as a spiritual seeker and as an artist. •​The pope’s advisers would be trying to catch him at any changes or “heresies” that he might insert in the work. •​The pope and Bramante had given him a large number of Roman assistants to help with the plaster and paint—but Michelangelo knew very well that their other job would be to spy on his work.”",
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                        "text": "“The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors. He would have desired someone to pick up the socks, put the records away, and maybe burn the place down. Michelangelo would have been distressed by its proportions, which were neither lofty nor shaped by any noticeable inner harmony or symmetry, other than that all parts of the room were pretty much equally full of old coffee mugs, shoes and brimming ashtrays, most of which were sharing their tasks with each other. The walls were painted in almost precisely that shade of green which Rafaello Sanzio would have bitten off his own right hand at the wrist rather than use, and Hercules, on seeing the room, would probably have returned half an hour later armed with a navigable river.”",
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                        "text": "“Still, the rebellious artist had placed a minor Jewish prophet in the important spot where the pope had wanted Jesus. How did Michelangelo imagine he would avoid the pope’s wrath in openly defying his wishes? Replacing Jesus with a minor prophet might have doomed any other commissioned artist, but Michelangelo found a brilliant way to appease his patron. The Zechariah panel is not simply an idealized portrait of a biblical figure. Michelangelo superimposed a portrait of Pope Julius II on the ancient Hebrew prophet. Not only that, but Michelangelo portrayed Zechariah dressed in a mantle of royal blue and gold—the traditional colors of the della Rovere clan, the family of both Pope Sixtus IV and his nephew Pope Julius II. Replacing the image of Jesus Christ with a portrait of the pontiff? This was no problem for the egomaniacal Julius. It placed his visage permanently over the entrance to this glorious new sanctuary for all future popes and commemorated his family’s role as its builders.”",
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                        "text": "“Leonardo was renowned as a painter, and Michelangelo (thanks to his Battle of the Centaurs and the David) was known for portraying male warriors. It took them over a year just to prepare their concepts and designs. Each fresco was to be more than 1,400 square feet. In 1504 gigantic sheets of paper (a very expensive commodity in the sixteenth century) were bought and prepared for the full-sized cartoni, or “cartoons,” the charcoal drawings used for transferring the outlines of the figures onto the fresh plaster of the fresco. Both artists got carried away by their special interests: Leonardo concentrated on the anatomy of the horses in the battle, while Michelangelo—as you might have guessed—filled his scene with muscular male nudes in every possible position. Copy by Aristotile da Sangallo of a detail from Michelangelo’s cartoon for the Battle of Cascina, c.”",
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                        "text": "“In 1510 the pope ordered the scaffolding dismantled and the first part of the fresco displayed to an eager public. The ecstatic reactions from artists and laymen alike helped overcome any complaints from the clergy and censors. Michelangelo won the right to proceed with the rest of the project without further (or with lessened, shall we say) interference. This was also his chance to stand on the ground level and see what the work looked like up there, about sixty-five feet above. He realized then that he was being too timid with the figures, that he had been making them too numerous and too small. We can immediately see the difference in the central panels after the Noah section: they are simplified and the figures are much larger and more “sculpted.” Even the prophets and sibyls increase in size from that point onward.”",
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                        "text": "“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, \"Give me masturbation or give me death.\" Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, \"To the lonely it is company; to the forsaken it is a friend; to the aged and to the impotent it is a benefactor. They that are penniless are yet rich, in that they still have this majestic diversion.\" In another place this experienced observer has said, \"There are times when I prefer it to sodomy.\" Robinson Crusoe says, \"I cannot describe what I owe to this gentle art.\" Queen Elizabeth said, \"It is the bulwark of virginity.\" Cetewayo, the Zulu hero, remarked, \"A jerk in the hand is worth two in the bush.\" The immortal Franklin has said, \"Masturbation is the best policy.\" Michelangelo and all of the other old masters--\"old masters,\" I will remark, is an abbreviation, a contraction--have used similar language. Michelangelo said to Pope Julius II, \"Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.\" Mr. Brown, here, in one of his latest and most graceful poems, refers to it in an eloquent line which is destined to live to the end of time--\"None knows it but to love it; none name it but to praise.”",
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