Arts Quotes

• 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

• 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

• But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

  

  John Milton
  • Sin
  • Arts
  • Lavish

• The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Hatred
  • Luxury
  • Arts

• 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
  • Arts
  • Equation
  • Maths

• Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Arts

• When the business people get done with the arts, all that's left will be entertainment.

  

  Alejandro Maldonado
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Arts

• The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

  

  Scilla Elworthy
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Personal

• The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Arts
  • Value decisions

• 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
  • Lawyer
  • Philosophers
  • Historians

• I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.

  

  Anna Journey
  • Language
  • Arts
  • Potter

• But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.

  

  William Johnson Cory
  • School
  • Habit
  • Arts

• All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Arts
  • Respected

• The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Trust
  • Arts
  • Bottom Line

• The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Activity
  • Arts
  • Useless

• Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

  

  Beatrice Warde
  • Humility
  • Experiments
  • Self-Conscious

• 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

• If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Brave
  • Consider
  • Arts

• The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Believe
  • Position
  • Adults

• The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Lessons
  • Celebrate
  • Interpret

• Waiting is one of the great arts.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Arts

• It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Life
  • Important
  • Wisdom

• The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Heart

• I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.

  

  Sung Hi Lee
  • Boxing
  • Fan
  • Arts

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