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.
So the lover must struggle for words.
The pavilion that seems to be hiding you from God may be fear of man rather than this desire to serve others. The Savior's only motivation was to help people... I challenge you to go for the Lord to someone, despite any fear you may have, to extend love and forgiveness. I promise you that as you do, you will feel the love of the Savior for that person and His love for you, and it will not seem to come from a great distance.
I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.
We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.
Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.
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