Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts. — Robert Frost
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks. — Salman Rushdie
When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist… — Lynda Barry
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast. — Unknown Author
I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise — Traci Bingham
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking… — Ville Valo
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the… — Robert James Waller
But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair. — Jeffrey Steingarten
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not. — Bas Rutten
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality… — Michael Foley
I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works… — Peter Greenaway
Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make… — Wesley Morris
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas. — Alan Greenspan
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized… — Bernard Berenson
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of — Ned Rorem
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. — John Steinbeck
The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become an object of… — Gichin Funakoshi
But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply… — Sean Connery
The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental. — Wassily Kandinsky
Regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that… — Jeff Daniels
Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people. — Jackie Chan
Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts. — Roberta Flack

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