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Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Immanuel Kant
Art, Purpose, Art Is

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Immanuel Kant
Fashion, Art, Nature
Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

Immanuel Kant
Beautiful, Art, Doe

The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

Immanuel Kant
Art, Play, Imagination
Immanuel Kant (2013). “Kant's Critiques”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

Immanuel Kant
Art, Grace, Degrees
Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

Immanuel Kant
Art, Father, Understanding
Immanuel Kant, J. Michael Young (2004). “Lectures on Logic”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Immanuel Kant
Art, Poetry, Example
Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Judgment: Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment and Theory of the Teleological Judgment: Critique of the Power of Judgment from the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals & Dreams of a Spirit-Seer”, p.170, e-artnow

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

Immanuel Kant
Art, Culture, Decay
Immanuel Kant (1985). “The Philosophy of Material Nature”, p.106, Hackett Publishing

But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

Immanuel Kant
Art, Divorce, Garden
"Critique of Judgment".

All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

Immanuel Kant
Art, Division Of Labor, Different
Immanuel Kant (2008). “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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