A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Interpretation
Creativity and skill come from intellect and imagination rather than just physical ability.
This quote by Michelangelo emphasizes the idea that true artistry stems from a deep understanding and thoughtful expression of one's ideas, rather than merely the physical act of creating. It highlights the importance of mental engagement and vision in the creative process, suggesting that the mind plays a crucial role in the mastery of any art form.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of creativity in education.
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 do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.
I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
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