Quote of Simone Weil - Art is the symbol of the...
Biography - Simone Weil:
French philosopher, mystic and political activist.
Born: 1909 - Died: 1943
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1909 - Died: 1943
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Translation
(French)
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Quotes about art:
The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Quotes for: symbol
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
One characteristic of the symbol is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty, for there is the rudiment of a natural bond between the signifier and the signified. The symbol of justice, a pair of scales, could not be replaced by just any other symbol, such as a chariot.
My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
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