Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens — Unknown Author
Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail… — Unknown Author
The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial… — Dan Inosanto
Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make… — Gichin Funakoshi
I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember. — Stephen Wallem
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art… — Hedy Lamarr
I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts. — Ken Baumann
More and more I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it’s important that I share the love… — Yayoi Kusama
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their… — Elliot W. Eisner
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the… — Ken Danby
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world. — Ann Macbeth
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than… — Jacob Bronowski
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence. — Charlie Chaplin
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us.… — Northrop Frye
It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies,… — Thomas Jefferson
You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you… — George Washington
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. — Lee Strasberg
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. — Brendan Gill
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of… — John F. Kennedy
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy… — John F. Kennedy
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the… — George Balanchine
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the… — Arthur Miller
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity… — Wassily Kandinsky
If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation… — Oskar Schlemmer

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