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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the notion that true beauty inspires a spiritual longing toward the divine.
Michelangelo suggests that when one encounters true beauty, it elevates the human spirit and connects it with the divine. He believes that his love embodies such beauty, acting as a bridge that inspires higher aspirations and desires, elevating the soul from earthly concerns to spiritual fulfillment and connection with God.
In practice
In a wedding speech to express the profound connection between love and beauty.
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.
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.
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.
Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.
I do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire.
Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.
In the end all collaborations are love stories.
Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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