art Quotes

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.

Art aims to show the inner meaning of things, not just how they look on the outside.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the... ...

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions,... ...