The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of... - Aristotle
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
"To perceive is to suffer."
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."