Art

Works to read

• The Art of Poetry (Ars Poetica) by Horace, c. 19-10 BC
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 1916 · Great Books
• Poetics by Aristotle, c. 335 BCE · Great Books
• The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry, 2002
• An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope, 1711
• Ion by Plato, c. 390s BC · Great Books
• The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, c. 1611 · Great Books
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, 1912 · Great Books
• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 1913 · Great Books
• The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga, 1919 · Great Books
• Metamorphoses by Ovid, 8 CE
• The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon by Sei Shōnagon, c. 1002

Passages

• All arts, for mortals’ use, Prometheus gave

  — Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

• They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish, all the world

  — William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

• Now the empire of man over things is founded on the arts and sciences alone, for nature is only to be commanded by obeying her

  — Francis Bacon, Novum Organum

• To all,' said Zeus; 'I should like them all to have a share; for cities cannot exist, if a few only share in the virtues, as in the arts

  — Plato, Protagoras

• he must learn to recognise the beauty in the arts, sciences, virtues; then these severed and particular forms must be brought under the one principle

  — Plotinus, Enneads

• The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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