Arts Quotes - page 2

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. (William Morris)
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The true test of all the arts, is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts. View quote
Joseph Addison
You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is. View quote
Kerry Washington
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values. View quote
Luis Barragán
I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise. View quote
Traci Bingham
Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons. View quote
Alan Watts
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. View quote
Franz Liszt
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. (William Blake)
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. View quote
Ernest Dimnet
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. View quote
H. L. Mencken
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. View quote
Helen Rowland
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain. View quote
George Steiner
Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars. View quote
Vitruvius
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. View quote
Vitruvius
A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all. View quote
Vitruvius
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. View quote
George Mason
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. (Eliza Farnham)
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege. View quote
Voltaire
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. View quote
Albert Einstein
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. View quote
Hendrik Willem van Loon