Michelangelo

Michelangelo protested that he was not a painter.

So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.

It looks like a Michelangelo painting.

In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo.

Michelangelo carved the statue of David out of a single block of marble.

The Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by Michelangelo.

Michelangelo was gay.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.

There are no evidences in these days of Michelangelos and Titians, who at the age of eighty or ninety could turn out stronger work than our people of thirty and forty today!