Arts Quotes

• There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

  

  Plato
  • Arts
  • All Things
  • Imitates

• When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree.

  

  William Blake
  • Tree
  • Nations
  • Commerce

• 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
  • Walking
  • Difficult
  • Photography

• Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

  

  Apuleius
  • Poverty
  • Arts
  • Discoverer

• Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Victim
  • Arts
  • Soil

• 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
  • Work
  • Writer
  • Editor

• Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.

  

  Bill Kaulitz
  • Sleep
  • Arts
  • Rockstars

• I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Arts
  • Horsemanship

• It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Technology
  • Results
  • Humanities

• In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

  

  Lukas Foss
  • Inspiration
  • Idea
  • Arts

• 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
  • Search
  • Rules
  • Advantage

• I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Degrees
  • Academy
  • Budapest

• I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

  

  Al Pacino
  • School
  • High
  • Level

• 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
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Gift

• If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • School
  • Understand
  • Girls

• 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
  • Use
  • Invention
  • Gift Of God

• 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
  • Discovery
  • Arts
  • Civilisation

• The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Place
  • Return

• 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
  • Design
  • Philosophy
  • Respecting

• When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Today
  • Idea
  • Photography

• The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.

  

  Dean Potter
  • Moment
  • Anxiety
  • Attraction

• Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beauty
  • Existence
  • Thing

• Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Art
  • Dead
  • Sake

• If you wait until you're an adult to be exposed to the arts, it could seem elitist, it could seem out of reach, it could seem scary.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Reach
  • Wait
  • Elitist

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