Arts Quotes

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. (Thomas Carlyle)
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. View quote
Ovid
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. View quote
Eugenio Montale
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. View quote
Edward Gibbon
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. View quote
Ezra Pound
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. View quote
Bruce Lee
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. View quote
John Steinbeck
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. (Pauline Kael)
Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels. View quote
Francisco Goya
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. View quote
Havelock Ellis
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do. View quote
Richard Price
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws. View quote
Joachim du Bellay
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. View quote
Lee Strasberg
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. View quote
Daniel Webster
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. View quote
Daniel Webster
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. View quote
Earle Brown
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. (Marcus Aurelius)
Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts. View quote
Bill Kaulitz
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. View quote
Aleister Crowley
I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind. View quote
Dolph Lundgren