Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing. — Michel de Montaigne
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why,… — David Hare
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing… — David Rubenstein
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions:… — Henry Wotton
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no… — Joseph Addison
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments. — Beatrice Warde
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates… — Francois Arago
Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. — Patch Adams
The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no… — Van Day Truex
I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic… — Toru Iwatani
It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We… — Patch Adams
So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue… — Arun Manilal Gandhi
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their… — Edmund Burke
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name… — Ambrose Bierce
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey
I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even… — Nicole Appleton
Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts? — Gabrielle Roy
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more. — Dan Fogelberg
Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is. — Peter Kreeft
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme
Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all… — Gilbert Sorrentino
Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers,… — Vivianne Crowley
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. — Jonathan Dimbleby
I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy. — Katheryn Winnick

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