What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
Source: From Charles Daney's Quotation Collection, an internet collection of quotations., an internet collection of quotations.
-- Michelangelo, (Mar 6 1475-1564), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, poet; He lead the High Renaissance with monumental style, e.g., David, 1504 and Paintings of Sistine Chapel, 1508-12.