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Quotes of the Day for 6 March 2005 - Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on this day in 1475 at Caprese in il Republico Fiorenza. He considered himself a sculptor, but his patron Pope Julius II made sure we think of him mostly as a painter of walls and ceilings. He was also a poet and prolific letter writer, and left us with these quotations.

The greater 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.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form
Of every thought the greatest artist has.
     - All from Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1474 - 1564

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