The Arts of the Beautiful

A. E. Housman abstract abstract art activity apprehension Aristotle artist become called cause Christian Church cognition colors conceived Council of Nicaea create creation creative critic define Demiurge desire distinction divine Divine Comedy emotions essence essentially esthetic experience ethics existence express fact factivity feel function genius Goethe Greek idea ideal images imitation inasmuch insofar intellect intelligible invention judgments Kant kind knowledge language Leibniz Lucretius masterpiece material matter means metaphysics mind musician nature never Nietzsche notion object ontology operations painter painting Paul Valery perfect philistinism philoso philosophers philosophy of art Plato pleasure poem poet poetic poetry poietic possible precisely principle problem produce prose pure reality reason religion remark Saint sake sculpture seminal form sense sort speak symbol teach theologians Thomas Aquinas thought tion transcendental true truth unity Valery verse words worship write