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.
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.
That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
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