Aristotle Quotes, Art Quotes, Moving Quotes

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.

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I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.

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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

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Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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Every old poem is sacred.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

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Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

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Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

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