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.
I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.
Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.
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