Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the GoodD. Appleton & Company, 1870 - 391 strani |
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1st Series 2d Series absolute truth abstract action admirable agreeable Aristotle artist Bossuet called cause character chimera color conceive Condillac confounded consciousness Corneille crime Descartes desire divine doctrine duty eighteenth century elevated empiricism eternal ethics of interest evil existence expression eyes fact faculties feel foundation genius give happiness heart idea ideal imagination immutable infinite intelligence judge judgment justice Kant lecture less Lesueur liberty Louis XIV Louvre Malebranche ment merit and demerit metaphysics mind Molière Montesquieu mysticism necessary principles necessary truths noble object obligation ourselves painting passion perceive perfect Pergolese person Phidias Plato pleasure Plotinus possess Poussin punishment Quatremère de Quincy reason sensation senses sensibility sentiment society Socrates sophism soul speak sublime substance supposes theodicea theory thing thought tion true unity universal and necessary Val-de-Grâce virtue whilst
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Stran 172 - ... rules, there is an abyss. True composition is nothing else than the most powerful means of expression. Expression not only furnishes the general rules of art, it also gives the principle that allows of their classification. In fact, every classification supposes a principle that serves as a common measure. Such a principle has been sought in pleasure, and the first of arts has seemed that which gives the most vivid joys. But we have proved that the object of art is not pleasure — the more or...
Stran 10 - It sustains religious sentiment; it second? true art, poesy worthy of the name, and a great literature; it is the support of right ; it equally repels the craft of the demagogue and tyranny ; it teaches all men to respect and value themselves, and, little by little, it conducts human societies to the true republic, that dream of all generous souls which in our times can be realized in Europe only by constitutional monarchy.
Stran 171 - So the arts have a common end, and entirely different means. Hence the general rules common to all, and particular rules for each. I have neither time nor space to enter into details on this point. I limit myself to repeating that the great law which governs all others is expression. Every work of art that does not express an idea signifies nothing; in addressing itself to such or such a sense, it must penetrate to the mind, to the soul, and bear thither a thought, a sentiment capable of touching...