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Arts Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
- A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
- New arts destroy the old.
- We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,…
- Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
- The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
- Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
- A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is…
- All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these…
- As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
- In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the…
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- Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that… — Theodore Bikel
- As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. — Theodore Bikel
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- I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. — Ray Bradbury
- Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background… — Eli Broad
- Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — Andre Breton
- One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their… — Jeff Bridges
- Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad
- Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows. — Les Brown