Quotes about art
art responsibility two
The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. Edward Abbey
art perfect great-art
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
art alternatives expansion
Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.
art practice causes
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself. Aristotle
art atheism woods
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
art time air
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
art states capacity
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
art war long
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.
art philosophy men
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
art nature raison-detre
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
art color giving
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.
art practice excellence
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.
art son planning
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.
art type art-is
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
art long matter
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
art reality purpose
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.
art exercise player
But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
art art-is concerned
All art is concerned with coming into being.
art
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
art mean intellectual
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
art sacrifice men
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .
art nature supplements
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
art causes action
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.
art moving science
The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.
art lying taught
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
art artist giving
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
art philosophy philosophical
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
art philosophy tendencies
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
art models
Art takes nature as its model.
art academic-excellence training
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
art artist art-is
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
art nature deficiency
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
art choices inquiry
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.