Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large… — Susan Sontag
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering… — Max Lerner
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. — Herb Ritts
All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in… — Andre Bazin
There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours… — Unknown Author
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration… — Alexey Brodovitch
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which is inferior to… — Marcus Aurelius
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to… — Richard Meier
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths… — Alexander Alekhine
Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle. — Unknown Author
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its… — Horace
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle
As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence… — Miyamoto Musashi
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. — Satish Kumar
Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no… — Robert Brustein
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate… — William Butler Yeats
Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may… — Samuel Adams
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of… — Aristotle
A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything… — Virginia Woolf
When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild. — T Bone Burnett
The average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily either has a… — Dave Barry
In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection. — Curnonsky
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some… — Aristotle
Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law... — Unknown Author
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. — Florence Nightingale

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