Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
Interpretation
Art should be created and appreciated as a divine gift, serving to honor God.
Michelangelo emphasizes that art transcends mere aesthetics and should be a means to express reverence for the divine. He suggests that the highest form of art is that which is created with the intention of glorifying God, portraying the belief that creativity is a sacred gift that carries a responsibility.
In practice
This quote can be shared at an art exhibition to emphasize the spiritual aspect of creativity.
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.
Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.
Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.
As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.
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