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Michelangelo (full name: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni; 1475—1564) was a prominent Italian Renessaince sculptor that made a big influence on art of Western Europe, together with Leonardo da Vinci. He is well known for paintings in Sistine Chapel and the statue of David.

Portrait of Michelangelo by Daniele Volterra

Quotes about him

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To make something is to invent or discover it. Michelangelo cuts away the extra marble that hides the statue, right?
 — 1980 interview in
book "Conversations with Ursula Le Guin"

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

  Lucy Parsons, The Principles of Anarchism
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Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!
 — Mark Twain humorously depicts tourists being told that most every monument in Italy was designed or painted by "Michael Angelo", oblivious to the historic significance of "Michelangelo".

  Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad.
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Italians have such illustrious people they can celebrate, that everyone celebrates — Michelangelo, Vivaldi and, of course, for us on the left, Sacco and Vanzetti.
 

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, [1] with Democracy Now (2021)
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  1. https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/11/indigenous_peoples_day Interview