Re: Art and Philosophy

[Sarah Twichell <twichell@mail.hartford.edu>]

Here's what I've got on Art:
“The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.”
-Francis Bacon
“’Art isn’t meaningless.’
‘It is in itself.  It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so.’”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dick Caramel and Maury Noble in The Beautiful and the
Damned
“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”
~Albert Einstein
“We all know that art is not truth.  Art is a lie that makes us realize
truth.”
~Pablo Picasso
“Art is a jealous mistress.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wealth
“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to
him, everybody sees them.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the
sun.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art
“Any form of art is a form of power, it has an impact, it can effect change
 it
can not only move us, it makes us move.”
~Ossie Davis
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
-Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island
“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of
mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to
the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but
invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in
aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all
humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”
~Joseph Conrad
“Art teaches nothing except the signifigance of life.”
-Henry Miller
good luck
Sarah
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
>
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