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Art Quotes by Carl Jung
- The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose…
- It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is…
- All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
- What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit…
- Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...
- True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you…
- Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the…
- Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape.…
- But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and…
- We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and…
- The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to…
- Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with…
- Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes…
- With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov