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Plato Quotes about Art

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

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

Art, Philosophy, History

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Art, Plato, Philosophical

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

Art, Children, Thinking

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Art, Philosophical, Men

Plato (1942). “Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic”

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

Dance, Art, Dancing

Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

Art, Stars, Philosophy

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Art, Philosophical, Two

Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Art, Men, Idols

Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.2181, Catholic Way Publishing

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Art, Poetry, Kind

Plato (1961). “Plato, with an English translation”

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Art, Three, Use

Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.441, Courier Corporation

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Dance, Art, Men

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Art, Giving, Persuasion

Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.1535, e-artnow

Art has no end but its own perfection.

Art, Perfection, Ends

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.6231, Delphi Classics

Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Art, Blessing, Men

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

Teacher, Art, Sight

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

Art, Men, Law

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

Art, Mean, Men

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Beauty, Beautiful, Art

Plato (1925). “Plato”, Loeb Classical Library

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

Art, Taken, Play

God ever geometrizes.

Beauty, God, Art

Attributed in Plutarch, Moralia

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

Art, Men, Thinking

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For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

Art, Holy Prophet, Order

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Dance, Art, Mean

He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

Art, Thinking, Doors

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Love, Valentines Day, Art

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