Arts Quotes
-
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 -
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
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
Waiting is one of the great arts.
Margery Allingham -
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 -
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
Victor Hugo
-
If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
Robert Frost -
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.
Hermann von Helmholtz -
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts.
Albert C. Barnes -
It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.
Andy Clark -
In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
George Bernard Shaw -
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.
Elliot W. Eisner
-
The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
Elliot W. Eisner -
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
Elliot W. Eisner -
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 -
The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
Scilla Elworthy -
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 -
When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.
Rick Yune
-
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.
Alicia Alonso -
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 -
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 -
They were told they shouldn't be supporting the arts, they should be supporting science research.
B. R. Hayden