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Quote of Aristotle - The aim of art is to...


Biography - Aristotle:

Greek philosopher.
Born: -384 - Died: -322
Period:
4th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

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



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Quotes for: art


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Quotes about art:


Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





My trade and art is to live.





The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.





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.'





The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.











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Aristotle also said...


Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.





One swallow does not make a summer.





Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.





Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.





Nature does nothing in vain.





Man is by nature a political animal.












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