Accepting Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without…

— Moses Mendelssohn

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the careful observance…

— Fernando Pessoa

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.…

— Alain de Botton

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Socrates was tried in a religious court. He was condemned for disregarding Athens' gods. If you look at the way he speaks at his…

— Bettany Hughes

“philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art”

— Friedrich Schlegel

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

— Paul Gauguin

“We were like children after larks, always on the point of catching the art, which was always getting away from us.… At last we…

— Mark A. Flynn

“I have studied the art of the ancients and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I no longer…

— Gustave Courbet