MichelangeloS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880 - 111 стор. |
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Сторінка 100 - Live on, and if you are not to share in the honours of this world, like other citizens, it is enough to have bread, and to live in the faith of Christ, even as I do here, for I live humbly, nor do I care for the life, nor the honours of this world.
Сторінка 79 - Good painting is in itself noble and religious. Nothing elevates a good man's spirit, and carries it farther on towards devotion, than the difficulty of reaching that state of perfection nearest to God which unites us to Him. Now good painting is an imitation of His perfection, the shading of His pencil, a music in fine, a melody ; and it is only a refined intellect which can appreciate the difficulty of this. That is why good painting is so rare, and why so few men can get near to or produce it.
Сторінка 76 - Ah ! do thou become my counsellor. Thy advice shall be sacred. Clear away my doubts. Teach me in my wavering how my unenlightened soul may resist the tyranny of passion unto the end. Do thou thyself, who hast directed my steps towards heaven by ways of pleasantness, prescribe a course for me.
Сторінка 88 - I am reaching the common haven to which every man must come, to give account of the good and evil he has done. Now I see how my soul fell into the error of making Art her idol and her sovereign lord. Thoughts of love, fond and sweet fancies, what will become of you, now that I am near to a double death — one certain, the other threatening? Neither painting nor sculpture can avail to calm a soul which turns to Thee, O God, who hast stretched out Thy arms upon the Cross for us.
Сторінка 98 - ... there said that he knew me but those were his orders. So, since I had heard those words on Saturday, and then seeing the result, I got extremely desperate. But this was not the entire cause of my departure; there was also another thing, which I don't want to write; suffice it that it made me think that if I stayed in Rome my tomb would be built before the Pope's.
Сторінка 89 - February 18, 1564, after dictating this brief will: "I commit my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my property to my nearest relations.