The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the opportunity of using these material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that gods came down at that time into the Greek temples in order to be among human beings on the physical plane.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.
Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.