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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

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“The greatest art is philosophy.”

Art Philosophy Art Is

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.”

Art Philosophy Able Art Is Assuming Blow Opponents Damage Just One Martial Arts Disciple Competent Uncommon Unthinkable Exchanging

Book:The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment

Source: The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment

“Art is science in the flesh.”

Art Philosophy History Art Is Flesh

Book:Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings

Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings

“Art is far feebler than necessity.”

Art Philosophy History Art Is

Book:Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound

“If the art is concealed, it succeeds.”

Ifs Art Philosophy History Succeed Art Is Concealed

Author:Ovid

“The morality of art is in its very beauty.”

Art Philosophy History Morality Art Is

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.”

“Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.”

Art Philosophy Accepting Struggle Judgment Art Is Internals Plato Internal Struggle

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has the capacity to hold all these different things. It is the form of understanding that is best suited for the contemporary time.”

Art Different Philosophy Form Understanding Differences Art Is Capacity Mathematics Contemporary Different Things

Author:Robert Longo

“Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.”

Art Philosophy Lasts Fine Art Is Consequence Fine Arts

Author:Max Bill

“All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.”

Art Philosophy Nations Rights Art Is Bills Fewer Continents Education System Bill Of Rights Nonconformity Public Education Magna Carta

Author:Ben Shahn

“In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.”

Art Philosophy Government Cases Special Art Is Western Usa Asian Examining Art History

Author:Jay L. Garfield