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.
Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
You either control your mind or it controls you.
To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty or forty years. But perhaps this is true of most writers—the emotional storage is done very early on.
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
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