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Arts Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more…
- I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those…
- The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
More Arts Quotes
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that… — Theodore Bikel
- One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their… — Jeff Bridges
- Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores… — Thad Cochran
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances… — Thomas Jefferson
- Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and… — Lawren Harris
- The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to… — Wayne Shorter