Plato Quotes, Art Quotes, Mean Quotes

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

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The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

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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.

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Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

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The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

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Art has no end but its own perfection.

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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

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Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned.

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Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

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It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

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Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.

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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

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