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Art Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
- Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
- It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
- All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
- Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
- Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of…
- Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be…
- All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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