 | Llewellyn Jones - 1925 - 260 pagine
...possesses more than a quantitative significance. Great artists are said to reveal us to ourselves. But how could this be possible, unless there were...nascitur" into "homo nascitur poeta": some men are born great poets, some small. The cult of the genius with all its attendant superstitions has arisen... | |
 | Katharine Everett Gilbert - 1927 - 196 pagine
..."Great artists are said to reveal us to ourselves. But how could this be possible, unless there be identity of nature between their imagination and ours, and unless the difference be only one of quantity?"17 Judgments of the bare existential form, There is a work of art a, and,... | |
 | K.H. Wolff - 1976 - 438 pagine
...element which is really in all of us... 31 Or Croce: Great artists are said to reveal us to ourselves. But how could this be possible unless there were identity...and unless the difference were only one of quantity? 1 ' Nor is Collingwood far from this: Thus, for Cezanne a painting expresses the universal; for Emerson,... | |
 | Albert Rothenberg, Carl R. Hausman - 1976 - 388 pagine
...possesses more than a quantitative signification. Great artists are said to reveal us to ourselves. But how could this be possible, unless there were...and unless the difference were only one of quantity? . . . The cult of the genius with all its attendant superstitions has arisen from this quantitative... | |
 | Per Winther - 1992 - 236 pagine
...signification." Croce's proof is communicability. "Great artists are said to reveal us to ourselves," he says. "But how could this be possible, unless there were...unless the difference were only one of quantity?" (14). Gardner implicitly makes the same point when he says that a "test of creative energy is the test... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - 2001 - 314 pagine
...difference, even as there is finally no difference in kind between the so-called genius and ordinary men: "It were better to change poeta nascitur into homo nascitur poeta: some men are born great poets, some small" (p. 14). But the point to mark is that this world which we objectify... | |
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It were better to change poeta nascitur into homo nascitur poeta: some men are born great poets, some small. The cult of the genius with all its attendant superstitions has arisen from this quantitative difference having been taken as a difference of... 