"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."

Art, Aesthetics, Invention

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"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Art, Science, Creation

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Truth, Critics, Authors

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Art, History

"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Art, Life, Time, Creation

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Art, Husband, Job

"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Art, Happiness, Philosophy, Values

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Art, Poetry, Love, Emotion, Expression

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Poetry, Perception, Vision

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Art, Man, Medicine, Sickness

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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."

Being

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."

Sense

"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit."

Time

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."

Love

"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."

Man

"Deserve your dream."

Dream

"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."

Time

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

"History develops, art stands still."

"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

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"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."

"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."

"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."

"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit."

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."

"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."

"Deserve your dream."

"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."