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Art Quotes by Simone Weil
- Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which…
- A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
- It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in…
- A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous…
- The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.
- To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
- More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a…
- Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like…
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- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
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- 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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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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