"Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love." Marsilio Ficino
"Art is the proper task of life." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The whole business of man is the arts, and all things common." William Blake
"The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold." Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
"The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness." Dante
"Industry without art is brutality." Ananda K Coomaraswamy
"For in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him." Carl Jung
"When nations grow old the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree." William Blake
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." Leonardo Da Vinci
"The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture, or poetry, have invariably this quality- something approaching the work of God." D.T. Suzuki
"The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit." William Blake.
"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit." Thomas Aquinas
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