It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
Interpretation
Architecture is fundamentally influenced by human form and function.
Michelangelo suggests that the elements of architecture mirror the human body, implying that the design and structure of buildings are inspired by human anatomy and proportions. This connection emphasizes the intrinsic relationship between humanity and the spaces they create, highlighting how architectural forms can reflect the physical and emotional experiences of the people who inhabit them.
In practice
This quote could be used in an art history lecture discussing the influence of human anatomy on architectural design.
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 love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.
There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.
Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.
We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.
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