I am still learning. (at age 87)
Interpretation
Lifelong learning is essential, regardless of age.
This quote by Michelangelo emphasizes that the pursuit of knowledge and personal growth does not stop with age or achievement. Even at 87, he acknowledges that there is always more to learn, highlighting the importance of humility and continuous self-improvement throughout one's life.
In practice
In a speech about lifelong learning to motivate seniors.
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 don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.
Remember who you are and whose you are.
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.
My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.
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