An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Art is the objectification of feeling.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
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