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[Anonymous No.19489285]

Are there any artists or philosophers who talk about the Ideal in art and what a great work of art should strive for to be considered great or genius? I realized I don't really know the answer and I was just basing my idea of greatness in works of art based on what I enjoyed and I'd like a better understanding of why something is great and lasting instead of just good.

[Anonymous No.19489307]

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17957/17957-h/17957-h.htm

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[Anonymous No.19489319]

>>19489307
Based.

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[Anonymous No.19491346]

>>19489285
>Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory - Stephen David Ross
>The Nature of Art: An Anthology - Thomas E Wartenberg
these cover what you're looking for. both anthologies of writing on the nature of art and aesthetics from various scholars and artists from various periods and backgrounds including those such as Kant, Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida, etc.

[Anonymous No.19491418]

>>19491346
>no Wagner

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>>19491418
go read a book dipshit

[Anonymous No.19491479]

>>19491423
>one of the most important writers on art in the 19th century
>influenced Nietzsche and the entirety of Symbolism
>significantly preceded many 20th century criticisms of art culture
>no mention in anthology

[Anonymous No.19491762]

>“Art is a gift from God and should be done for His glory, to enlighten, inspire and to call people to a state of contemplation, so that they can experience the peace which emanates from the same source that we all have inside us.

>Visionary art is not surrealism or fantasy, it’s a mission where the artist acknowledges, searches and allows divine inspiration to perform the work beyond ego, beyond the latest trends or influences, to awaken in people the infinite within themselves. The function of art is not to portray things, but rather to reveal the divine essence in them; in the whole symbolism of my paintings—roses, galaxies, keys, portals, crystals, gems, butterflies, eagles, trees, waterfalls… there are elements that always appear with a spiritual substratum beyond the forms portrayed.”

— Tuco Amalfi, via The Visionary Art of Tuco Amalfi

>“For the soul, contracting herself wholly into a union with herself, and into the centre of universal life, and removing the multitude and variety of all-various powers, ascends into the highest place of speculation, from whence she will survey the nature of beings. For if she looks back upon things posterior to her essence, she will perceive nothing but the shadows and resemblances of beings: but if she returns into herself, she will evolve her own essence, and the reasons she contains. And at first indeed she will as it were only behold herself; but when by her knowledge she penetrates more profoundly in her investigations, she will find intellect seated in her essence, and the universal orders of beings: but when she advances into the more interior recesses of herself, and as it were into the sanctuary of the soul, she will be enabled to contemplate, with her eyes closed to corporeal vision, the genus of the gods, and the unities of beings. For all things reside in us, after a manner correspondent to the nature of the soul: and on this account we are naturally enabled to know all things, by exciting our inherent powers, and images of whatever exists.”

— Proclus, Theology of Plato

>“Once in a while it is different and better. When Handel wrote The Messiah he believed he was in the presence of the Lord. I believe it. I believe the highest purposes of art are to please God and glorify Him. These are the motives He Himself honours and which permits the artist to approach nearest the secret realm of sublime perfection he seeks and always knew was there, in his heart.”

— Cliff McReynolds

>“The paintings are of those moments of understanding when a great pattern emerges from a chaos of information. It is as if the veil of illusion is lifted, allowing a glimpse of the true nature of the universe. The painting is a celebration of this event. It represents the culmination of one part of the journey and the beginning of another.”

— Sheila Rose

>Do the skilful in song know
Where the powerful artist is concealed?

—Taliesin, Song of Ale

[Anonymous No.19491767]

>You will never love Art well, till you love what she mirrors better.

—John Ruskin

>“The Beautiful, taken in its classical sense, is not an illusion. The Beautiful is the True manifested by the Idea in form. This is the highest goal that the artist must seek to attain… When the artist causes light to spring forth from darkness, beauty from ugliness, the pure from the impure, he reveals Truth to humanity, he reveals God. The Beautiful, the True, the Good are synonyms. It is the glory of Art to be able to make perceptible to human eyes the three mysteries which form a single one!”

— Jean Delville

“In beauty find the rhythmic music born
Of the majestic movement of the spheres;

The colour songs of sunset and of morn,
The symphony of the eternal years.

Spirit of beauty, guide us with Thy might
Lest earth, grown blind, seek not the living Light.”

— M.E. Robbins

>A genius is one who learns to detect that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, to grasp the thought and to know that what is true for him is true for all men. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain elicited majesty.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

>In a style of fantasy realism, [Benny H.V. Andersson’s] universes are awe-inspiring. His blissful visions show us that there is a vastly dimensional world within our grasp through meditation, prayer and spiritual direction.

—Manhattan Arts International

“To me, inspiration for my art is a combination of great artists of the past and the inner visions I see today. In my own way I explore realms of light and colour on my canvases. Each painting is sometimes like a soul-searching journey in itself. It is a great moment at those times when my art serves as an inspiration for viewers to find and release their own hopes and dreams.”

— Benny H.V. Andersson

>“What is a poet? He is a man of religious experience whose creative gift enables him to communicate spiritual truths to men. His poetry can bring deliverance from spiritual death, bringing his hearers to a new knowledge of their divine Creator, who gave him this special power. In this way souls that have been disordered can be healed, and the human relation with God may be restored when it has been impaired… This is the fruit and indeed the purpose of music and poetry, direct gifts from God to mankind.”

— Elizabeth Henry, Orpheus and His Lute

>The goal of my art is to soothe and, hopefully, to elevate the viewer. I paint landscapes because unspoiled land is beautiful. Beauty is that which excites the soul.

—Gage Taylor

>The adoration of beauty leads the creature nearer to the Source of all he beholds. Then he will disregard life as it seems; for he will have merged in THAT from which all proceeds, and he will be ONE with the Essence of Divine Love—which is the highest God, and therefore IT is unknown.

—Jean Michaud

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