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Michelangelo

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1. Michelangelo - Noun

2. Michelangelo - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses. Jacob Bronowski

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man. Quentin Crisp

In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. T. S. Eliot

Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents? Lucy Parsons

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. Jonathan Safran Foer

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. Andrew Denton

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