Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564)

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed

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