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November 25, 2005
michelangelo on painting and drawing
What one has most to work and struggle for in the painting is to do the work with a great amount of labor and sweat in such a way that it may afterwards appear, however much it was labored, to have been done quickly and almost without any labor, and very easily, although it was not.
Let whoever may have attained so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure; he will be able to make figures higher than any tower, both painted and as statues, and he will find no wall or side of a building that will not prove narrow and small for his great imaginings.
Michelangelo
Posted by amin at November 25, 2005 9:37 PM
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