Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into… — Kurt Vonnegut
Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman? — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we… — Maya Angelou
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In… — Eric Clapton
I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father… — Steve Martin
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is… — C.S. Lewis
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living. — Bertolt Brecht
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet… — Dave Barry
Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and… — Pamela Dean
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the… — Madeleine L'Engle
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay,… — Stephen Fry
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is… — Charles Fort
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain… — William Shakespeare
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men… — Thomas Hobbes
Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference. — Charles Portis
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts. — Confucius
He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery. — Lord Byron
Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own. — Leonard Bernstein
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their… — Alexander Hamilton
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it. — David McCullough
Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind,… — John Maeda
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue?… — Gustave Flaubert
...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the… — Bill Cosby

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