Arts Quotes

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The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. — Thomas de Quincey
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. — Francois Rabelais
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what… — Tacitus
The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe… — William Wordsworth
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. — Finley Peter Dunne
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this… — John Dewey
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. — Unknown Author
Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility. — Unknown Author
We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is… — May Sarton
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of… — Richard Crashaw
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts. — Juvenal
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. — Alexander Pope
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. — Alexander Pope
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque
All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is… — Henry Moore
I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It… — Ronald Reagan
For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even… — Hannah More
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. — Guillaume Apollinaire
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself… — Theophile Gautier
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of… — Paul Theroux

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