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 -
It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
Camille Paglia
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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 -
Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
Fat Joe -
He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.
Lord Byron -
Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.
Fannie Farmer -
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 -
One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
Ralph Gibson
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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 -
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum -
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 -
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 -
I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
Zendaya -
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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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 -
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 -
The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.
Zoey Deutch -
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 -
I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
Len Wein -
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake
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I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.
Walker Evans -
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Plato -
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 -
We know the Arts are the archives of our human history, the wind of invention and the heartbeat of humanity.
Natasha Tsakos