Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Change, Art

  Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

• Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Self, Secret

  "Les Amis du Cinéma" by Alfred North Whitehead, (Paris, October 1, 1952); as quotes in "Telling It Like It Is" by Paul Bowden, (p. 182), 2011.

• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

• Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Travel, Adventure

• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

• Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Soul, Reason

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

• I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Beauty, Art, Peace

  "Adventures of Ideas".

• Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Writing, Self

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

• The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Science, Law

  Alfred North Whitehead (1939). “An introduction to mathematics”

• The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Soul, Body

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Change, Art, Order

  Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

• Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Acquisition

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

• Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Lying, Sunset

• Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Adventure, Scrapbooking

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.169, David R. Godine Publisher

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