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Aesthetician Inspirational Quotes (705)

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Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
John Ruskin
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Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general liberty, so to speak, at large.
John Dewey
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Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
John Ruskin
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To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.
John Dewey
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In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry, but the kind of art that creates a whole world in itself and in that world we see ourselves reflected and see our religious life perfected.
Roger Scruton
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It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.
Ernst Gombrich
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The words environment, medium denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.
John Dewey
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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
Ernst Gombrich
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To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.
Johann Gottfried Herder
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The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
John Ruskin
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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
John Ruskin
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
John Ruskin
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Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
John Ruskin
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Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.
John Dewey
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One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.
Ernst Gombrich
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That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.
John Dewey
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Multitudes think they like to do evil yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
John Ruskin
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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
Johann Gottfried Herder
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The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.
Roger Scruton
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The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others
John Ruskin
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The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.
John Dewey
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That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.
John Ruskin
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
John Ruskin
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A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton
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