Michelangelo Quotes

“As we are born into time, so will time destroy us. Mortality is the price we pay for participating in Creation, the progression of our lives measured by the circling of the heavenly bodies.”
― Miles J. Unger, Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”
― Miles J. Unger, Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces

“...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.”
― Miles J. Unger, Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces