art Quotes

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these... ...

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other... ...

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.