Literary notes about artistic (AI summary)
The term "artistic" in literature carries a dual significance, simultaneously highlighting intrinsic creative impulses and denoting an aesthetic quality that elevates a work or creation. It is often used to express a deep-seated passion that transforms raw emotion into evocative art [1], or to characterize the elegant design of an object or space, as in commendation of palatial architecture [2] or a timeless painting [3]. Authors invoke "artistic" to differentiate genuine creative insight from mere technical execution, noting that even musical compositions or literary works may be critiqued for lacking what might be called deeper, inherent artistry [4, 5]. In various contexts, the word also becomes a surrogate for refined taste and visionary imagination, whether employed to underscore the superior melding of form and matter or the intuitive, almost philosophical, drive behind creative endeavors [6, 7, 8].
- He dreams himself into a time when passion suffices to generate songs and poems: as if emotion had ever been able to create anything artistic.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - He occupied one of the most palatial and artistic houses of the period, so called, of Louis Philippe.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe - Da Vinci spent four years on the head of Mona Lisa, perhaps the most beautiful ever painted, but he left therein an artistic thought for all time.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - His music, light, brilliant, but lacking in sincerity and deeper artistic qualities, is now much neglected.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón - In general, the impossible must be justified by reference to artistic requirements, or to the higher reality, or to received opinion.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle - It is the art of music which most completely realises this artistic ideal, this perfect identification of form and matter.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater - Complexity of this sort, held in check by a dominant instinct, as in Nietzsche's case, is of course the only possible basis of an artistic nature.—TR.
— from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Ability to use even in a masterly way an established technique gives no warranty of artistic work, for the latter also depends upon an animating idea.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
