Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. Aristotle View this quote
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. Aristotle
Aristotle
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. Adam Smith
Adam Smith
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior. William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only. W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life. Leo Tolstoy
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. Leo Tolstoy
