Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Well Said: The aim of art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
This spoke to me after recording the next episode of A Good Story is Hard to Find podcast, which I just finished previewing this morning.

Essentially, we talk about Aristotle's premise. What inward significance, as Catholics, do we see in books and movies? Now, I have to agree with Freud that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But oftentimes, there is more to art than meets our first glance. N'est ce pas?

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