Arts Quotes
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Mae Jemison
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It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
Camille Paglia
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The house had probably cost a couple of million quid, with its two stories plus loft conversion, red brick, and detailing on the porch roof that hinted at Arts and Crafts without actually making it over the finishing line. It was at least mercifully free of pebble-dash and fake half-timbering. They’d retained the original sash windows but installed the venetian blinds that have replaced net curtains as the genteel response to sharing your neighborhood with other human beings.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
Oscar Wilde
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
William Blake
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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Ethel Barrymore
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
Fat Joe
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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
Francis Bacon
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.
Uzo Aduba
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The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
Kate DiCamillo
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The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.
William Blake
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I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.
Buck Brannaman
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We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.
Leontyne Price
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When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more interesting than where music was.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.
Fannie Farmer
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
Bela Lugosi
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We have a fine arts visual classroom set up specifically for the arts as far as drawing and painting, ... We also have a fine arts music classroom set up for piano and music. Those were two things that, prior to this fall, we really didn't have in place at the college.
Larry Williams
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I have fought all over the world, and I am excited to be in 'EA Sports MMA' because this game is going to show the global appeal of mixed martial arts.
Fedor Emelianenko
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I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was frowned upon. But in the arts, resistance can often be the strongest inspiration.
Charlie Fink
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I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect symbol of the activity of God and His angels. I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically. I believe that true education in the art of dance is education of the whole man.
Ted Shawn
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Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
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For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)
John Calvin
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We know the Arts are the archives of our human history, the wind of invention and the heartbeat of humanity.
Natasha Tsakos