“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Meditations. xi. 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“You do not have the right to use this art form to feel inferior.”
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E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist
"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.”
Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
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.”
Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985) American philosopher
Source: Feeling and Form (1953), Ch. 3, p. 40
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
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.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
XI, 10
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XI
Kieran Scott (1974) American writer
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