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PART II
THE ROOF
Alfred de Musset says something like
this: “ If by Art you mean that which
guides the use of materials and determines
results, if you want to give the name of Art
to that being who has a thousand names,
inspiration, meditation, respect for rule, cult
of beauty, dreams and realisations, if you
want so to baptise an abstract being, then
what you call Art is in reality Mani
Such words may well apply to Michel
Angelo,1 and we lose the full significance of
his Art if we examine it without knowing
the man of whom it is the outpouring, pro-
duced with his heart’s blood. He himself
1 Michel Angelo Buonarroti, Florentine, b. 147-1—d. 1564.
THE ROOF
Alfred de Musset says something like
this: “ If by Art you mean that which
guides the use of materials and determines
results, if you want to give the name of Art
to that being who has a thousand names,
inspiration, meditation, respect for rule, cult
of beauty, dreams and realisations, if you
want so to baptise an abstract being, then
what you call Art is in reality Mani
Such words may well apply to Michel
Angelo,1 and we lose the full significance of
his Art if we examine it without knowing
the man of whom it is the outpouring, pro-
duced with his heart’s blood. He himself
1 Michel Angelo Buonarroti, Florentine, b. 147-1—d. 1564.