Art is what everyone knows it is. Benedetto Croce More Quotes by Benedetto Croce More Quotes From Benedetto Croce Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Benedetto Croce art-is imagination art All history is contemporary history. Benedetto Croce contemporary Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them does not define them; it feels and presents them. Benedetto Croce real imagination art Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free. Benedetto Croce equality party expression History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. Benedetto Croce essentials humans spirit We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied. Benedetto Croce alive men history Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else. Benedetto Croce leaving knowing knowledge The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history. Benedetto Croce writing history past This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well. Benedetto Croce missions wells vision The translation called good has original value as a work of art. Benedetto Croce translations originals art