“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”
Meditations. xi. 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
As quoted by a former student "TJ" (23 March 2006) http://yesandblog.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_yesandblog_archive.html
“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”
Meditations. xi. 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"A Book That Influenced Me"
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)
“You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.”
Ode interview (2009)
Context: It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet … You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.
“Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.”
Source: Feeling and Form (1953), Ch. 3, p. 40
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
Speech (7 June 1923), Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate), on the Censorship of Films Bill. http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0001/S.0001.192306070006.html
“There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.”
XI, 10
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XI