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Art Quotes by Plato
- Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been…
- The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of…
- That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It…
- I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to…
- Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred…
- One man cannot practice many arts with success.
- Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
- If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would…
- Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- . . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is…
- All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
- Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would…
- The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
- The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone…
- The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of…
- Art has no end but its own perfection.
- And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The…
- The beginning is the most important part of the work.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- 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
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov