Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea… — Lisa Gansky
Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is… — Thomas Heatherwick
Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important. — Vladimir Lenin
Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the… — Raven Grimassi
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character. — Morihei Ueshiba
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. — Susan Neiman
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. — Oliver Sacks
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood. — Jean de la Bruyere
In the arts of peace Man is a bungler. — George Bernard Shaw
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats… — Ben Jonson
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University,… — Evelyn Waugh
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery… — George Steiner
I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes… — Jarvis Cocker
I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More… — Dolph Lundgren
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing… — Al Franken
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts. — Paul Gauguin
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. — Mason Cooley
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully… — Nicolaus Copernicus
What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.'… — Ann Coulter
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without… — Bryan Cranston
I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high… — Sloane Crosley
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and… — Aleister Crowley
I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into… — Ice Cube

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