Bavnews.am presents to you 10 genius words of the Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet, Michelangelo Buonarroti.
1. I can’t do anything yet, but I can learn.
2. A good statue should remain unharmed even if it rolls down the mountain.
3. Art is jealous. it requires one to give oneself wholeheartedly.
4. If people knew how hard I worked to acquire my skill, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful to them.
5. The best and safest way to get credit and weight in the world is to trust yourself.
6. The task of the sculptor is to take the block of marble and cut away what is unnecessary in it.
7. Genius is eternal patience.
8. Only God creates, the rest are simply copied.
9. Inside every stone is a sculpture, and the task of the sculptor is to open it.
10. You are lucky, you just have to believe it.
Michelangelo died on February 18, 1564 and is buried in the Church of Santa Croce in Florence.
Distinguished by his modest lifestyle in his earthly life, this polymath greatness, always satisfied with little, dictated his will before his death in his typical laconic style.
“I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, my possessions to my friends.”
