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Art (n.) stripped ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠of measure is conjecture and trained senses — the lucky guesses many people call art once practice has made them proficient.

Art (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠neither particularly useful (the painting of a bed is no good to sleep on), nor, in the strict sense, true.

Art (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠images vice is a meadow of bad grass: grazing there day by day, the young unwittingly accumulate a large evil in their souls.

Art (n.) comes, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like reason and law, before roughness and smoothness, heavy and light; if soul is older than matter, nature herself is a secondary product of art and reason.

Art (n.) on ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a colossal scale says goodbye to truth: the makers of huge statues give them the proportions that seem beautiful from below, not the real ones.

Art (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠all about mimesis, imitation of reality (which itself is an imitation of the transcendent realm) and thus it is but a copy, and its value is thus, that of a dubious imitation of an imitations.