The Fire and the Sun Quotes

“The painter and the writer are not just copyists or even illusionists, but through some deeper vision of their subject-matter may become privileged truth tellers.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists

“Art both expresses and gratifies the lowest part of the soul, and feeds and enlivens base emotions which ought to be left to wither.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists

“The painter copies this bed from one point of view. He is thus at three removes from reality. He does not understand the bed, he does not measure it, he could not make it.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists