Age Quote by Jacob Bronowski

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

— John Irving

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself…

— John Ruskin

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

art is the pulse of a nation.

— Gertrude Stein

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

— Willa Cather

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

— John Philip Sousa

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

— James Whistler

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

— James Earl Jones

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of…

— John Dryden

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

— Noel Gallagher