Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to…

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

— Louise Bogan

The arts don't exist in isolation.

— David Byrne

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Music does not exist in isolation, it is rooted in the political, the social, the cultural. We need to remember this at all times,…

— Lawrence English

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a…

— Adolf Loos

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted,…

— Donald Judd

The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed,…

— Robert A. M. Stern

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

— Ernest Dimnet

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts…

— Thom Mayne

Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and…

— Walter Gropius

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

— Jacques Audiard

Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital…

— Marshall McLuhan

“If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?”

— Etienne Vermeersch

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I think that the individual cannot exist in a vacuum. Cannot exist in isolation. He is the member of a tribe, a church, a…

— Faith Adiele