Art (Continued)
73 …the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Aristotle.
74 The noblest art appeals to the intellect as well as to the feelings…. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Aristotle.
74 "The function of art is catharsis, purification: emotions accumulated in us under the pressure of social restraints, and liable to sudden issue in unsocial and destructive action, are touched off and sluiced away in the harmless form of theatrical excitement; so tragedy, "through pity and fear, effects the proper purgation of these emotions." Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Aristotle.
221 Voltaire: Take away the arts and the progress of the mind, and you will find nothing in any age remarkable enough to attract the attention of posterity. . Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Voltaire.
326 Schopenhauer : A work of art is successful…in proportion as it suggests the Platonic Idea, or universal, of the group to which the represented object belongs. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Schopenhauer.
337 Schopenhauer : This power of the arts to elevate us above the strife of wills…. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Schopenhauer.
118 Joyce Carol Oates: Art...a means by which we rise out of limited, parochial states of mind. Plimpton, ed. The Writer’s Chapbook
64 It may be, indeed, that the artistic impulse is simply a kind of disgust with things as they are. Mencken, Minority Report.
188 Artists can seldom account for their own work…. Mencken, Minority Report.
124 Faulkner: Art has no concern with peace and contentment. Cowley, ed., Writers at Work.
149 Simenon: …a work of art can’t be done for the purpose of pleasing a certain group of readers. Cowley, ed., Writers at Work.
12 Ira Wolfert: Art has been called a process of withholding…. Hull, ed. The Writer’s Book.
33 Ann Petry: The novel, like all other forms of art, will always reflect the political, economic, and social structure of the period in which it was created. Hull, ed. The Writer’s Book.
337 Dr. Beatrice Hinkle: For the artist most definitely lives in two worlds, the world of objective reality being colored and shadowed by the subjective world of the ideal and of fantasy, the latter…made real to him through his capacity for arresting it and fixing it in form. Hull, ed. The Writer’s Book.
1004 Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider and should…not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Wealth.
641 Every great artist has been such by synthesis. Emerson, Representative Men: Plato, or The Philosopher.
14 The eye is the best of artists. Emerson, Nature.
244 A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.... Emerson, History.
24 Cervantes: “When a poet is poor, half of his divine fruits and fancies miscarry by reasons of his anxious cares to win his daily bread.” Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote of La Mancha. Introduction by Walter Starkie.
200 It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not able to feel that it is fine. George Eliot, Middlemarch.
36 Guillermo Cabrera Infante: These men [Solzhenitsyn, Orwell, Camus] are heroes because they fight swords with words—but that doesn’t make them artists. Plimpton, ed. The Writer’s Chapbook
44 John Updike: …the artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and…he does it without destroying something else. Plimpton, ed. The Writer’s Chapbook
297 W.H. Auden: …I have come to realize that, in cases of social or political injustice, only two things are effective: political action and straight journalist reportage of the facts. Plimpton, ed. The Writer’s Chapbook
297 W.H. Auden: The social and political history of Europe would be what it has been if Dante, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Mozart et al. had never lived. Plimpton, ed. The Writer’s Chapbook
885 But we make very pretty pictures, sometimes, with our artfully arranged lights and shadows. Hawthorne, The Marble Faun.
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