Arts Quotes
1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors
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The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a…
— Peter Maxwell Davies
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The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions,…
— Peter Maxwell Davies
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Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.
— Flavor Flav
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That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their…
— Jamie Foxx
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Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.
— Maureen Forrester
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I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented…
— Renee Fleming
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When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to…
— Juan Goytisolo
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I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big…
— Charlie Haden
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The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he…
— Mickey Hart
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I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.
— Noah Hathaway
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My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought…
— Tom Hardy
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My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation…
— Tony Hale
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of…
— John Roberts
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New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will be a lively…
— Goh Chok Tong
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If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
— Louis Kahn
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I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.
— Steve Kazee
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Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision.…
— Owen Gleiberman
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I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.
— Michelle Ryan
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Martial arts has been a way of life for me since I was a young kid. It created a discipline and respect for everything. Martial…
— Luke Rockhold
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The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like…
— Will Self
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The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists…
— Leontyne Price
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Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and…
— Mae Jemison
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