Arts Quotes
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If you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.
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Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.
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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.
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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.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.
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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
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Waiting is one of the great arts.
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Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
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Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.
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There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.
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We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.
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The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
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Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
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I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.
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The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.
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The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views.
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Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.
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The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
