Arts Quotes - page 4

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism. (Karl Friedrich Schinkel)
Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning... except its own. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known. View quote
John Constable
It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed in the conducting of experiments, which cannot well be described in words, but which it is needless to describe, since practice will necessarily suggest them; though, like all other arts in which the hands and fingers are made use of, it is only much practice that can enable a person to go through complex experiments, of this or any kind, with ease and readiness. View quote
Joseph Priestley
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. View quote
Ezra Pound
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. View quote
Irvine Welsh
It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts. View quote
Lou Reed
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both. (Ben Jonson)
Poetry and the arts can't exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain. View quote
Daniel Levitin
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation. View quote
Ralph Vaughan Williams
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. View quote
Julia Child
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation... From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units. View quote
Hans Hofmann
At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art. View quote
César Vallejo
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. View quote
George Washington
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. (Christine de Pizan)
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is a queen, infinitely fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice. View quote
George Santayana
... And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. View quote
Pete Seeger
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end. View quote
Camille Paglia
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble. View quote
Bel Kaufman