'You will come again ?' asked the host and hostess in a breath.

'Yes, yes,' said Beethoven hurriedly, 'I will come again, and give the young lady some lessons.

Farewell!' Then to me he added: 'Let us make haste back, that I may write out that sonata while I can yet remember it.' We did return in haste, and not until long past the dawn of day did he rise from his table with the full score of the Moonlight Sonata in his hand." Michael Angelo studied anatomy twelve years, nearly ruining his health, but this course determined his style, his practice, and his glory.

He drew his figures in skeleton, added muscles, fat, and skin successively, and then draped them.

He made every tool he used in sculpture, such as files, chisels, and pincers.