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

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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that...

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

—Aristophanes

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

—Alfred North Whitehead

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages—and it is easier to stay at home.

—Gwendolyn Brooks

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