Chapter 36 — That happiness does not consist in the practice of art

It is also evident that it cannot consist in the practice of art.

For even the knowledge of art is practical, and so is directed to an end, and is not the ultimate end.

Besides. The end of the practice of art is the thing produced by art. Such a thing cannot be the ultimate end of human life, since we are rather the end of those products, for they are all made for man’s use. Therefore, final happiness cannot consist in the practice of art.

The contemplation of God