Quotes about art
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. Aristotle
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.
art requirements impossible
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
art tasks virtue
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
art adventure mind
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world. Ben Hecht
art fall writing
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
art world mass
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
art fun thinking
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art. Ben Kingsley
art cutting exercise
The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So as an acting exercise, it's absolutely thrilling that the focus that we had to bring to each other echoed in life, echoed in art. And when you get that parallel, it's really thrilling and it's full of surprises, but it all has a logic.
art differences use
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences. Ben Harper
art lying giving
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing. Ben Jonson