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.
For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.
Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.
Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.
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