Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. — Unknown Author
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I… — PJ Harvey
The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this… — Sandra Day O'Connor
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. — Roger Zelazny
All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. — Mike Tyson
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents… — Jonathan Lethem
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and… — Sinclair Lewis
If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help. — Aung San Suu Kyi
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts — Albert Barnes
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising,… — Rene Magritte
Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement… — Gerard van der Leeuw
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are… — Emile Chartier
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a… — William Melmoth
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy. — Oliver Goldsmith
The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of… — Plato
Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. — Apuleius
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred… — Plato
One man cannot practice many arts with success. — Plato
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. — Plato
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets… — Jeremy Begbie
That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare… — Gene Veith
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would… — Plato
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely… — Jesse L. Martin

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