Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time. — Richard Le Gallienne
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts. — John Philip Sousa
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something. — Ben Jonson
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which… — Walter Savage Landor
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the… — Anton Chekhov
My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a… — John Howe
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience. — William Safire
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all… — John Drinkwater
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated… — Mary McCarthy
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if… — Ethel Barrymore
I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts,… — Sherwood Anderson
The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know… — Frank Zappa
Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are… — Frank Zappa
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of… — Duane Michals
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is… — Hilaire Belloc
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various… — Julian Barnes
The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics… — John Lahr
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style… — Rudolf Arnheim
I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind. — Dolph Lundgren
When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up… — Dolph Lundgren
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it… — Mark Mothersbaugh
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of… — Gavin Newsom
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving… — Gavin Newsom
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. — Gavin Newsom

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