Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

— Philip Pullman

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

— Hillary Clinton

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

— Michel de Montaigne

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

— Elizabeth Inchbald

“Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation”

— Anonymous

“There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if ‘productivity’ and/or…

— Tasha Golden

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in…

— Jason Ralph

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that…

— Ken Danby

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

— Ovid

“Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.”

— Amit Kalantri

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is…

— Peter Drucker