Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with… — Wassily Kandinsky
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or… — George Santayana
The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they… — Edward Albee
I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of… — Charles Fleischer
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it… — Leonardo da Vinci
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of… — Henry Mintzberg
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the… — Leonard Nimoy
I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion. — Leo Howard
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts. — Leo Howard
I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial… — Leo Howard
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about… — Jonathan Culler
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural… — Northrop Frye
Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing.… — Northrop Frye
The arts are not a way to make a living, — Kurt Vonnegut
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing,… — Jacques Maritain
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.… — Will Durant
As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled… — PJ Harvey
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up… — John Dos Passos
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a… — Richard Wagner
Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute. — Craig Claiborne
In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the… — Barack Obama
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind. — Joseph Addison
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and… — Jonny Lee Miller
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they… — Thomas Carlyle
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying… — Earle Brown

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