Art Quote by John R. Stilgoe

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is...…

— Josef Pieper

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

— Keith Haring

Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting… it is to assist Nature in moving…

— William Wordsworth

Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary to excel…

— Lord Chesterfield

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

— William Wordsworth

A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding…

— William Hazlitt

“Liberal politics is based on the idea that the voters know best, and there is no need for Big Brother to tell us what…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may…

— Charlie Munger

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly…

— Joan Didion

I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute…

— Mae Jemison

“Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too…

— Paul Beaver