art Quotes

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.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.