The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.Aristotle