Ancient Quote by Ellen Dissanayake

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts.…

— Steven Pinker

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism -…

— Andy Warhol

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature…

— Rudolf Arnheim

“I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Since the beginning of Humanities every era has had an elitist group that attempted to dictate what is and is not acceptable forms of…

— Tracy L. Darity

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to…

— Rockwell Kent

If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed…

— Walter Gropius

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No…

— Abraham Lincoln

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art

— Harry S. Broudy

Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

— Louise Wilson

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization…

— George Edward Woodberry

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot