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Chapter I
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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
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a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
From this reading “No artist is ever morbid.”
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
From this reading “From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.”
plural of “instrument” — a device that requires skill for proper use
From this reading “Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.”
plural of “material” — the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
From this reading “Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.”
suggesting an unhealthy mental state
From this reading “No artist is ever morbid.”
someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
From this reading “From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.”
a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
From this reading “From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.”
moral weakness
From this reading “Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.”
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(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
an old form of “are”, used with “thou”
From this reading Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
From this reading No artist is ever morbid.
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
From this reading From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading The artist can express everything.
at any time
From this reading No artist is ever morbid.
all things; all of a situation
From this reading The artist can express everything.
give expression to
From this reading The artist can express everything.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
From this reading From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
plural of “instrument” — a device that requires skill for proper use
From this reading Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading No artist is ever morbid.
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
From this reading Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
plural of “material” — the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
From this reading Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
suggesting an unhealthy mental state
From this reading No artist is ever morbid.
someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
From this reading From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
not any; not one
From this reading No artist is ever morbid.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
a geometric element that has position but no extension
From this reading From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The artist can express everything.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
From this reading From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
moral weakness
From this reading Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
From this reading From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
Moral excellence and goodness of character; the highest human attainment in Stoic philosophy.
From this reading Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
