Arts Quotes
1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors
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We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation…
— Richard Riley
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Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.
— Robert Foster Bennett
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The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.
— Unknown Author
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I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our…
— Craig Newmark
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
— Ernest Dimnet
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Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.
— Unknown Author
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Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
— Germaine Greer
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
— Henry David Thoreau
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How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the…
— Unknown Author
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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand…
— Virgil
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The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural…
— Unknown Author
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
— George Santayana
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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
— Eric Hoffer
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing…
— Washington Irving
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When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be…
— Elihu Root
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
— Sam Abell
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
— Oscar Wilde
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
— Eugenio Montale
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New arts destroy the old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Arts Quotes
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