Re: Art and Philosophy

["Eyler Coates, Sr." <eyler.coates@worldnet.att.net>]

At 02:47 PM 11/12/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>The Philosophical Society of which I am president is
>going to be talking about the relationship between art
>and philosophy.  If anyone has any quotations on
>either, and could help me out, I would appreciate it.
>
>Thanks!
>Camilla L. North
I didn't realize I had so many.  The following have various slants and a
multitude of philosophical implications.
"The more dangerous form of censorship is internal, imposed by
artists who are afraid of challenging established values." --Andrzei
Wajda
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world." --Albert Einstein
"The consummate artist has that perfect self-confidence so that
whatever his other roles in life, he knows that he can do what no one
else has done before him, what no one else could possibly be doing
now.  And what comes with that self-confidence is an essential
indifference to what the voices of the time may say about him.  He
knows what his value is and that the future will agree." --Anonymous
"The advantage of motherhood for a woman artist is that it puts her in
immediate and inescapable contact with the sources of life, death,
beauty, growth, corruption... If the woman artist has been trained to
believe that the activities of motherhood are trivial, tangential to
the main issues of life, irrelevant to the great themes of literature,
she should untrain herself.  The training is misogynist; it protects
and perpetuates systems of thought and feeling which prefer violence
and death to love and birth, and it is a lie." --Alicia Ostriker
"A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy; so he has
only to copy to prove his originality." --Radiguet
"If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how
can he expect the world to do so?" --Anonymous
"Art is the essence of awareness." --Louise Nevelson
"Real art is without irony.  Irony distances the author from his
material.  Irony is a product of something.  It's not the reason for
doing something.  Irony is a cheap shot." --Robert Altman
"Don't buy a work of art unless you can't live without it." --William S.
Paley
"Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been
mastered.  You can't create until you're willing to subordinate the
creative impulses to the constriction of a form." --Anonymous
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is
the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is
a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." --Albert Einstein
"All great art and all great science springs from the passionate desire
to embody what was at first an unsubstantial phantom, a beckoning
beauty luring men away from safety and ease to a glorious torment.
The men in whom this passion exists must not be fettered by the
shackles of a utilitarian philosophy, for to their ardour we owe all that
makes man great." --Bertrand Russell
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and
wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and
observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science." --Albert
Einstein
Eyler Coates
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