CHAPTER 25
Focus on a Single Objective
LEARNING FROM
Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) is widely recognized as one of the world’s greatest sculptors and painters. His true passion was always-sculpting, however, so initially he described himself as a scultore, only later coming to eye even this general description of his profession with suspicion, when he had developed a deeper sense of his artistic destiny. Michelangelo’s feel for stone was very special. For instance, when his sculpture of Night sleeping inspired Giovanni Strozzi to pen an epigram, he duly responded in verse himself, writing: “Sleep is dear to me, and being of stone ...
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