Quote of Arthur Schopenhauer - Art is a way of viewing...
Biography - Arthur Schopenhauer:
German philosopher.
Born: 1788 - Died: 1860
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1788 - Died: 1860
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Art is a way of viewing things independently from the principle of sufficient reason.
Translation
(French)
See also...
Quotes about reason:
Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Quotes about art:
The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Quotes for: contemplation
Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Who am I? Subject and object in one — contemplating and contemplated, thinking and thought of. As both must I have become what I am.
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