Arts Quotes
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Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.
Martin Luther
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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.
William Lipscomb
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You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
William T. Wiley
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On gay men: Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
Bette Davis
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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.
Eugene Delacroix
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I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.
Isaiah Mustafa
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In the martial arts, the guys respect the women fighters.
Bonnie Canino
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We're both very passionate about the arts. Mom, of course with her arts background. I have a theater background and work with children.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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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.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
Elizabeth Inchbald
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My parentage set me up to want to make a life of my own in the arts, but also contributed to my feeling a certain amount of pressure, especially in my early years, to figure out who I was and how to make my own mark.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Ernest Dimnet
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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.
Diane Ackerman
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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.
Chael Sonnen
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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.
Bernard Berenson
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Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
Eugenio Montale
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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.
Elliot W. Eisner
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The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.
Hillary Clinton
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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.
Eugenio Montale
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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.
Elliot W. Eisner
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If the arts are in peril, we must do our small part to to fight the good fight and protect and preserve.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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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.
Esaias Tegner
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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.
Eugene S. Ferguson