Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.
MichelangeloAfter four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
MichelangeloLet whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
Michelangelo