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“Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Philosophy Ought Art Is Paint Photographer Details Painter Ruins Forsake

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Art School Young Teach Ought Skills Art Is All Things Regard Young Man Preacher Temperament Music In Schools

Book:The Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther

“One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.”

Knows Should Art War Done Enemy Friends Ought Art Is Difficulty Civil War Concealed

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.”

Thinking Art Artist Secret Wonder Hell Ought Art Is Photographer Not Sure

Author:Todd Walker

“Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.”

Art Dangerous Ought Art Is Prepared Ignorant Contact Censorship Forbidden Chaste Censoring

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.”

Want Feels Believe Humans Art Made Human Beings Pleasure Ought Genius Art Is Argument Passionate Utterance Good Faith

Book:The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

Source: The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought