Art Quotes by Aristotle

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

— Aristotle

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

— Aristotle

All art is concerned with coming into being.

— Aristotle

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

— Aristotle

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

— Aristotle

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

— Aristotle

“the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.”

— Aristotle

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

— Aristotle

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

— Aristotle

“We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it.”

— Aristotle

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of…

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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

— Aristotle

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education…

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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the…

— Aristotle

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious…

— Aristotle

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of…

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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in…

— Aristotle

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends…

— Aristotle

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the…

— Aristotle

Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into…

— Aristotle

The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is…

— Aristotle

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how…

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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate…

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“The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the…

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The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things…

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“Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is…

— Aristotle

“Thus, since time immemorial, it has been customary to accept the criticism of art from a man who may or may not…

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“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He…

— Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we…

— Aristotle

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient…

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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only…

— Aristotle

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

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

— Aristotle

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

— Aristotle

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

— Aristotle