"Art has a double face, of expression and……" — Rene Daumal
"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."
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Rene Daumal
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14 Quotes by Rene Daumal
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is…
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The door to the invisible must be visible.
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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn…
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Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What…
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In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of…
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When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things,…
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Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel,…
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an…
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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place?…
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Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.
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A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— 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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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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