A Beautiful Thing Never Gives So Much

Beauty Is The Purgation Of Superfluities.

As When, O Lady Mine, With Chiselled Touch, The Stone Unhewn And Cold, Becomes A Living Mould, The More The Marble Wastes, The More The Statue Grows.

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.

Lorenzo De' Medici Seeks Highly Skilled, Aesthetically Oriented Individual To Conceive And Implement Several Major Public Projects. You Are A Generalist With Sound Training In Structural Engineering, Synthesis Of Pigments And Christian Iconography. Some Climbing Involved

When They Asked Michelangelo How He Made His Statue Of David He Is Reported To Have Said, "it Is Easy. You Just Chip Away The Stone That Doesn't Look Like David.