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• Art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, coming from the Latin word "ars" which means a "craft or specialized form or skill".
• Art is universal, crafted by all people regardless of origin, time, place and it stayed on because it is liked and enjoyed by people continuously.
• Art is central to man's existence because it makes accessible feelings and emotions of people from the past and present, from one continent to another.
• The two Greek epics, the Illiad and the Odyssey and the Sanksrit pieces Mahabharata and Ramayana are purportedly written before the beginning of recorded history.
• Art is not nature, it is man’s expression of his reception of nature.
• Art is man’s way of interpreting nature.
• Art is not nature, it is made by man, whereas nature is a given around us.
• Art involves experience, it does not require a full definition, it is just experience.
• Jean-Paul Sartre, a famous French philosopher of the 20th century, described the world of art as a creative work that depicts the world in a completely different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom.
• Creativity in art making requires “thinking outside the box”, it is what sets apart one artwork from another.
• Albert Einstein demonstrated that knowledge is actually derived from imagination.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge, it embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
• Imagination is not constrained by the walls of the norm, it goes beyond that.
• Through imagination, one is able to craft something bold, something new and something better in the hopes of creating something that will stimulate change.
• Robin George Collingwood, an English philosopher who is best known for his work in aesthetics, explicated in his publication The Principles of Art (1938) that expression in art is the exploration of emotions and the creation of something beautiful out of them.
• Expression in art is different from description, as it individualizes, allowing an artist to express himself the way he wants to.
• Human beings endeavor to reach the Forms all throughout his life, starting with formal education in school.
• In his description of the ideal republic, Plato advises against the inclusion of art as a subject in the curriculum and the banning of artists.
• Aristotle, Plato’s most important student in philosophy, agreed with his teacher that art is a form of imitation.
• Poetry and painting, the art forms that Plato was particularly concerned with, do not have any place in ideal state that Socrates envisions.
• Efficiency cannot be mistaken as beauty, while it certainly determines the beauty in some works of art, an efficient functional object is not necessarily beautiful.
• When one ascribes beauty to another person, he refers to an imperfect beauty that participates only in the form of beauty in the World of Forms.
• Aristotle considered art as an aid to philosophy in revealing truth.
• Plato was convinced that artists merely reinforce the belief in copies and discourage men to reach for the real entities in the World of Forms.
• From looking at the “shadows in the cave”, men slowly crawl outside to behold the real entities in the world.
• Plato is critical of the effects of art, specifically, poetry to the people of the ideal state.
• In Plato’s metaphysics of view of reality, the things in this world are only copies of the original, the eternal, and the true entities that can only be found in the World of Forms.
• Art demands so much more than mere efficiency.
• Art always has to be functional unless it can perform its function sufficiently.
• Adequate performance of function partly determines the beauty of a design in these functional art forms.
• Socrates is worried that art objects represent only the things in this world, copies themselves of reality.
• According to Plato, art is dangerous because it provides a petty replacement for the real entities that can only be attained through reason.
• Plato in his masterpiece, The Republic, paints a picture of artists as imitators and art as mere imitation.
• Plato was deeply suspicious of arts and artists for two reasons : they appeal to the emotion rather than to the rational faculty of men and they imitate rather than lead one to reality.
• Visual arts are creations that fall under this category, they appeal to the sense of sight and are mainly visual in nature.
• Sculpture, another functional art form, has long existed for various purposes, particularly for religion.
• Artists produce visual arts driven by their desire to reproduce things that they have seen in the way that they perceived them.
• Unlike practical arts where the value of the art in question lies in the practical benefits one gains from it, with painting and literature, one can only look at the value of the product of art in and for itself.
• Art is considered to have a social function if and when it addresses a particular collective interest, with political art being a common example.
• In Roman Catholic world, the employment of sculptures for religious purposes has remained vital, relevant, and symbolic.