Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end… — Joshua Reynolds
The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes… — Joshua Reynolds
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. — Joyce Cary
Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would… — Randolph Bourne
Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must… — Carl von Clausewitz
I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher. — Forest Whitaker
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... — Harold Rosenberg
Waiting is one of the great arts. — Margery Allingham
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the… — Ken Livingstone
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study… — Jackson Pollock
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry,… — Roger Scruton
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far… — Morris Graves
This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, .. I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting… — Jay Kay
The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community. — Gavin Newsom
There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a… — LeRoy Neiman
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation,… — Giorgio Vasari
From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,. — Zhang Ziyi
There is a love-hate relationship between New York and the rest of the country, but New York is unarguably the city that sets the standards,… — Harold C. Schonberg
In the arts there are many right answers. — Jerry Uelsmann
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. — Dean Mitchell
The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the… — Robert Genn
For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can. — Lawren Harris
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression… — Richard Schmid
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites… — Henry Clay

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