Art Quote by Eli Broad

Art is the signature of civilizations.

— Beverly Sills

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

— John Ralston Saul

“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying…

— Will Durant

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

— Nell Scovell

In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture…

— Edward J. Fraughton

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

— Jonas Mekas

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

— William Morris

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

— Mark Twain

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually…

— Will Durant

A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and…

— Rick Riordan