Christmas 2011 Poetry - Michelangelo

" Likewise on roughest paper, artists will
Make sketches, long before they use the brush.
Among a hundred efforts, crude and rash,
The right one springs at last from so much skill."  

         - Michelangelo

Christmas 2011 Poetry - Michelangelo

Michelangelo


    "If noble concepts have a birth divine
     In human looks and acts, the value is
     Doubled - that from such petty images
     A face, not art's, should in the dull stone shine."