Arts Quotes
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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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Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.
Bill Kaulitz
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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Lukas Foss
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All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions.
John Calvin
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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
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The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.
John Calvin
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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
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The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.
Elliot W. Eisner
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I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.
Eugene McCarthy
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
Robert Frost
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
Scilla Elworthy
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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Plato
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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
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All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone - my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music - ensemble music, not soloism - we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.
James G. Frazer
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You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.
Martin Luther
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It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
Steve Jobs
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Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.
Apuleius
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I believe maths should be applied to the arts. So I claim that it was in Britain that the famous equation E = mc2 was proved: E = exposure (of nether parts) m = much c = chuckling chuckling squared = helpless laughter
Andrew Sachs
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
Al Pacino
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ... to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality the origin as well as the progress and improvement of civil society is founded in mechanical and chemical inventions.
Humphry Davy
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Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.
Isaac Newton
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde