It will be finished when I shall have done all that I believe required to satisfy Art.
In plain words
He would not rush his work, not even for a pope.
Where these words come from
- 93% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Recorded by Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists (trans. Mrs. Jonathan Foster) — Michelangelo's answer when Pope Julius II demanded to know when the Sistine ceiling would be done.
- Vasari's Lives of the Artists (Michelangelo), trans. Mrs. Jonathan Foster
- 1510 · the Sistine Chapel, Rome · Pope Julius II presses Michelangelo to hurry the ceiling; he refuses to rush his standards
