Art Quote by Nell Scovell Download Open image “Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'” — Nell Scovell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Arts Culture Luxury Politics Politics and war Proof War
The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts]. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political. — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
I realize that 'hire qualified women!' is the sort of outraged demand that's often met with a sigh. No one disagrees, and yet gender… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.' — Nell Scovell Copy Share
If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.' — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator Al Gore… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
For thirty years, I've been hearing that it's getting better for women. And until I see statistical proof over enough years that that's true, I won't believe it. — Nell Scovell Copy Share
The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.' — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
In TV, you look to make characters consistent, but in real life, we're not consistent. Sometimes we're brave, and sometimes we're not. Sometimes we're… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image