Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that beauty reflects a higher, divine source that connects us all.
Michelangelo expresses the idea that true beauty, as perceived by those who are insightful, is reminiscent of a celestial origin that unites humanity. He implies that the appreciation of beauty transcends individual experiences and points to a common divine source that is shared among all people.
In practice
During an art gallery opening, one might reference this quote to highlight the deeper meaning behind the artwork.
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.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.
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