Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine… — Lee Maracle
The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create… — Dana Gioia
Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood. — Paul Lockhart
While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its… — Louise Slaughter
My mother and father were interested in the arts. — Ken Adam
Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have… — Ken Adam
If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative. — Nikki DeLoach
I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New… — Hans Haacke
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have… — Hans Haacke
I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit… — Rainey Qualley
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. — Harry Mathews
I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan. — Sung-Hi Lee
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored… — Darren Aronofsky
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. — Moshe Safdie
Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts. — Peter York
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media. — Peter York
Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick… — Peter York
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. — J. Carter Brown
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send… — Leon Jouhaux
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. — Walter Legge
I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. — Walter Legge
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and… — Samuel George Morton
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be… — Robert Breault
I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy. — Julia Child

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