Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may…

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after…

— Anonymous

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study…

— Anthony Burgess

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

— Peter James

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

— Ann Leckie

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers,…

— Adam Gopnik

“We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

— Thomas Carlyle

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

— Santiago Calatrava

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its…

— Walter Gropius

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

— Piet Mondrian

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

— Walter Gropius

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

— Herbert Spencer

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff…

— Kathy Bates

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

— Madame de Stael

“where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poetry in the Universe itself — surely we hear…

— Matthew Fox