The same clearness of thought and obscurity of expression and the same passion is to be found in the famous sonnet-"Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun Concetto,"-where he blames himself for not being able to obtain her good-will-as a bad sculptor who cannot hew out the beauty from the rock, although he feels it to be there; and in that heart-breaking one where he says that people may only draw from life what they give to it, and says no good can come to a man who, looking on such great beauty, feels such pain.
"Emerson and Other Essays"
John Jay Chapman
Varchi printed this letter in a volume which he published at Florence in 1549, and reissued through another firm in 1590. It contained the treatise alluded to above, and also a commentary upon one of Michelangelo's sonnets, "Non ha l'ottimo artista alcun Concetto."
"The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti"
John Addington Symonds
The prince willingly agreed to the proposal; and the doctor, debating on the subject he should choose, turned to Salvator and begged that he would not lay pencil to canvas, until he, the Signor Dottore, should find leisure to dictate to him il pensiero e Concetto della sua pittura, the idea and conceit of his picture!
"Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)"
Shearjashub Spooner