Top 100 Quotes About Philosophy Of Art

#1. I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.

Debasish Mridha

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#2. In the world of art, all things are possible.
George from Paradise Kiss

Ai Yazawa

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#3. Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

Brian Eno

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#4. I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

William Shakespeare

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#5. Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Langston Hughes

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#6. Art is an expression of love, which you can see on the canvas.

Debasish Mridha

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#7. Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.

Ashutosh Gupta

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#8. With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Hannah Arendt

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#9. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

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#10. If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

David Deida

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#11. There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

Bertrand Russell

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#12. I think ... that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals ...

Corliss Lamont

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#13. The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.

Samael Aun Weor

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#14. There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

Alan Dean Foster

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#15. 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.

Ben Shahn

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#16. I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary.

Sally Mann

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#17. When you give, give without any expectations.

Vishwas Chavan

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#18. philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art

Friedrich Schlegel

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#19. A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

Russell Hoban

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#20. Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

Ivan Brunetti

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#21. A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#22. Art expresses those unexplainable thoughts of our soul.

Debasish Mridha

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#23. Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of nature. And besides, why imitate nature when it can be perceived by all those endowed with senses?

Kahlil Gibran

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#24. Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Jean Piaget

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#25. The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

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#26. I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

Mos Def

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#27. A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.

Debasish Mridha

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#28. That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

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#29. Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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#30. Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#31. It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

Jonny Greenwood

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#32. Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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#33. Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Henry James

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#34. All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and leaving only the linear, successive unfurling of meaning
not one drop of rain falling after another, much less a feather or a torn-of leaf.

Michel Foucault

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#35. The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

Plato

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#36. You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

William John Wills

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#37. Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Auguste Rodin

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#38. IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON.

Amy King

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#39. Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer.

Debasish Mridha

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#40. There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Joseph De Maistre

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#41. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#42. Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

William H Gass

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#43. The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

Lorenzo Ghiberti

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#44. There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

Beatrice M. Hinkle

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#45. To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#46. Dance as if life is a work of art.
Dance as if life is a stage for a dance drama.

Debasish Mridha

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#47. Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a priceless pearl of art and philosophy.

Stephen Crane

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#48. If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?

Plato

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#49. First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

Paul Klee

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#50. You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

Tom Stoppard

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#51. Ideas matter - and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

Sam Harris

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#52. Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

Epicurus

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#53. Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#54. Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.

P.D. Ouspensky

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#55. Art is a song of the soul that is sung by the light of the heart with the color of emotion and appreciation.

Debasish Mridha

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#56. Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs.

Debasish Mridha

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#57. In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

William Shakespeare

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#58. You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're
supposed to be civilized and cultured - to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

George Bernard Shaw

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#59. Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.

Andre Suares

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#60. Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

Lydia M. Child

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#61. When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

Denis Diderot

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#62. You are magnificent and unique. Love yourself and stay unique and you will beautify this world with your unique art of life.

Debasish Mridha

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#63. To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

Igor Stravinsky

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#64. I found the book, Qur'an,] in spite of "the contradictions, the absurdities, the anachronisms", "rhapsody, without connection, without order, and without art.

Voltaire

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#65. The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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#66. From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth
her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#67. DESPITE THE INVENTION OF TIME MACHINES, WE KEEP BEING LINEAR.

Amy King

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#68. There is a saying in Bali: "We have no art. We do everything as beautifully as possible." This reflects my philosophy of practice. I try to remember daily what a gift it is to have the privilege of living in this wondrous world.

Sam Keen

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#69. The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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#70. Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination.

Stella Mowen

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#71. First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

William C. Brown

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#72. And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

Russell Hoban

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#73. I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

Marilyn Manson

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#74. The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves ... The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Harold Bloom

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#75. It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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#76. Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

Lewis Thomas

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#77. Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

Debasish Mridha

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#78. Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

Sigmund Freud

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#79. Philosophy is an art form - art of thought or thought as art

Susan Sontag

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#80. Through art we can see the reflection of the inner world of an artist.

Debasish Mridha

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#81. Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

Maya Angelou

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#82. Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions.

Debasish Mridha

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#83. Great fiction is the art of a soul.

Douglas Christiansen

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#84. The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination

Danielle M. Maistry

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#85. A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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#86. One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Susan Neiman

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#87. The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

Peter Kreeft

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#88. The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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#89. O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

Sun Tzu

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#90. The art of being wise is to respond to everything with kindness and love.

Debasish Mridha

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#91. Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#92. Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

Naum Gabo

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#93. I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish.
- Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

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#94. It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

Baltasar Gracian

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#95. I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

P.D. James

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#96. No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#97. The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

James Jordan

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#98. Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.

Scott Hutchins

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#99. A picture is a fleeting moment of life preserved on a canvas.

Debasish Mridha

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#100. Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Muriel Spark

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