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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Bk. II, Observations in the Minset of the Wanderer: Art, Ethics, Nature
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
Art shouldn’t be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.
La géométrie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est ? l'art de l'écrivain.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered.
I couldn't have sex with someone who didn't think was a good artist.
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
If thou art wise, thou knowest thy own Ignorance ; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thy self.
Life isn't long enough for love and art.