Artist Quotes by Jacques Maritain

8 Artist quotes by Jacques Maritain

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Jacques Maritain’s reflections on being an artist are expressed in eight thoughtful statements that read like a philosophical essay, each probing the deeper meaning of creation.

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The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for…

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It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat,…

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Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either…

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The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest…

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Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate…

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God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

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“The definition of Christian art is to be found in its subject and its spirit. Everything, sacred and profane, belongs to it.…

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Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is…

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A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it…

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It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.

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The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect.…

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Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

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That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie,…

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The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs…

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The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

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Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

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Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason…

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Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start…

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We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

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