Arthur C. Danto: Bringing reality to life has at once been the problem and the promise of pictorial art.

Bringing reality to life has at once been the problem and the promise of pictori — Arthur C. Danto

Bringing reality to life has at once been the problem and the promise of pictorial art.

Arthur C. Danto

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In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Slowly, under our feet, beneath our consciousness, is forming that new philosoph — John Galsworthy
If the subject of art will be a broken jug a small broken soul with a great self — Zbigniew Herbert in Why the Classics .
Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal — Jane Austen
I started out alone to seek adventures. You don't really have to seek them—that — Mark Twain
οὐ γὰρ δεῖν ἐπιτάττεσθαι τὸν σοφὸν ἀλλ᾽ ἐπιτάττειν, καὶ οὐ τοῦτον ἑτέρῳ πείθεσθα — Aristotle
Alius quidam veterum poetarum, cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est, Veritatem — Another ancient poet
Lorsque les femmes nous aiment, elles nous pardonnent tout, même nos crimes ; lo — Honoré de Balzac
I have shut my eye like a falcon to all the world Since my (inward) eye is open — Hafez
Art is long, and time is fleeting. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think that what really matters about a religion is whether it's true. — Richard Dawkins