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.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. Itβs usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.
Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.
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