Michelangelo Quotes
No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
Michelangelo. The Poetry of Michelangelo. Translated by James M. Saslow, Yale University Press, 1991, p. 509.
This is an amazingly modern view of education and training.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known simply as Michelangelo (English: /ˌmaɪkəlˈændʒəloʊ, ˌmɪk-/), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. His artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival, the fellow founder of the High Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci. Several scholars have described Michelangelo as the greatest artist of his age and even as the greatest artist of all time.