Art Quote by Victor Hugo

“Art moves them and they don't know what they've been moved by and they get quite drunk on it.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at…

— Jerry Pinkney

I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will…

— Jack White

“Cas Wouters, inspired by conversations with Elias late in his life, suggests that we are living through a new phase in the Civilizing Process.…

— Steven Pinker

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

— Hugh Hefner

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it…

— Sigmund Freud

And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the sense that…

— Sigmund Freud

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

— Kenneth Clark

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing,…

— Mary Blakely

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The objective of civilizing us is to make Indian history become our permanent reality.

— John Trudell

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

— Walter Kirn