art Quotes

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause... ...

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated... ...

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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... ...

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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.

Homer is the main one who taught other poets how to tell lies skillfully.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.