The nature of art is a Sphinxs riddle.

“艺术本质特征”的问题，是个“斯芬克司之谜”。

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Before we think about the question, What is the nature of art?

在我们考虑这个问题前，究竟什么是艺术的本质呢？

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The nature of art originates from the desire of confirming and reflecting the reality.

艺术的本性起源于对反观的自由的追求。

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The first sentence of your passage: "There is no art but one delivered to mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object."

你们篇子上的第一句话：，“只有一种艺术,当它传播到人间时,不带有自然的痕迹“

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Ideas like this, as I say, are taken from the aesthetic and practical thinking about the nature of the work of art that one finds in Modernism.

这种观点,来自对,现代主义作品美学和实际的考虑。

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The sovereign does not exist by nature but rather, Hobbes tells us again, the sovereignty is the product of art or science.

霍布斯又告诉我们说,国家不是生来就有的，而主权也只是科学和艺术的产物罢了。

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Philosopher Alva Noe wrote in The New York Times last year that this branch of science has not produced any interesting or surprising insights, and that perhaps it won't because of the very nature of art itself -- how can anyone ever say definitively what it is?

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The international auction house said the first quarter is traditionally a loss period because of the seasonal nature of the art auction market.

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His deceptively simple style is a sophisticated synthesis, a reconciliation of the monumental and the popular, of the general and the particular, of the real and the mythic, of nature and art.

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