art Quotes

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.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Homer has taught all other poets the skill of telling lies well.