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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 11

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11. Now as to the arts and crafts and their productions: The imitative arts- painting, sculpture, dancing, pantomimic gesturing- are, largely, earth-based; on an earthly base; they follow models found in sense, since they copy forms and movements and reproduce seen symmetries; they cannot therefore be referred to that higher sphere except indirectly, through the Reason-Principle in humanity. On the other hand any skill which, beginning with the observation of the symmetry of living things…

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