The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.
Interpretation
Design is fundamental to all forms of artistic expression.
In this quote, Michelangelo emphasizes that the principles of design are not just foundational but also intrinsic to various art forms, including painting, sculpture, and architecture. He suggests that every creation of human imagination, whether visual or structural, can be traced back to the core art of design, highlighting its critical role in the artistic process.
In practice
In a lecture about art history, to illustrate the importance of design in various art forms.
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.
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.
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