Art Quotes by Plato

God is a geometrician.

— Plato

God ever geometrizes.

— Plato

Art has no end but its own perfection.

— Plato

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

— Plato

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

— Plato

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

— Plato

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

— Plato

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

— Plato

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

— Plato

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

— Plato

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is…

— Plato

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom…

— Plato

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to…

— Plato

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

— Plato

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of…

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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

— Plato

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man…

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“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse…

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“In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men?…

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He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make…

— Plato

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of…

— Plato

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the…

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The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life…

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And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound…

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The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that…

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“For the fact is that neither the grammarian nor any other person of skill ever makes a mistake in so far as…

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For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have…

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Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of…

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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning…

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“I perceived how foolish I had been in consenting to take my turn with you in praising love, and saying that I…

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“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and…

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“[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic…

— Plato

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they…

— Plato

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

— Plato

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

— Plato

“Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.”

— Plato

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is…

— Plato

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning…

— Plato