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“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

World Mind Form Artist Order Beauty Principles Taken Particular Materials Pure Shadow Ideals Tradition Absolutes Harmony Mere Inspired Bounds Cosmos Idealism Defects Representing Platonic

Author:John Walford

“The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit.”

Men Spirit Artist Known Beauty Harmony Severe Semblance Work And Life

Author:Lawren Harris

“I have read that the ancients, when they had produced a sound, used to modulate it, heightening and lowering its pitch without departing from the rules of harmony. So must the artist do in working at the nude.”

Used Artist Sound Harmony Departing

Author:Antonio Canova

“Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.”

Should Together Artist Effort Teaching Keys Harmony Realism Realist Never Ending

Author:Igor Babailov

“All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.”

Has Beens Real Artist Concepts Harmony Philosopher Realms

Book:The Philosophy of Freedom

Source: The Philosophy of Freedom

“The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared by healers, especially the herbal healer who works with plants, which are the pure creative expression of nature and the healing process.”

Eye Artist Process Healing Creative Poet Expression Perspective Pure Musician Harmony Plant Proportion Healer Creative Expression Healing Process

Author:Michael Tierra

“Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

Feels Doe Art Facts Lying Artist Choices Teach Fine Harmony

Author:Arthur Wesley Dow