Arts Quotes - page 5

When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible. (Émile Chartier)
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Cute,” she said, smiling. "If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. View quote
Roger Zelazny
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part. View quote
Apollonius of Tyana
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? View quote
Alfred de Vigny
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. View quote
Don DeLillo
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. View quote
Robert Sapolsky
Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training for life's work to be as much universal and thorough for all walks of life as has been the training in the arts of killing. View quote
Huey Long
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. View quote
William Cowper
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. View quote
Henry Clay
T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. (John Gay)
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. View quote
Julie Burchill
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them. View quote
Northrop Frye
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself. View quote
Northrop Frye
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts...Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach. View quote
Northrop Frye
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself. View quote
Northrop Frye
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat? View quote
Charles Lamb
You're talking to a modern, nice, affable German person and they're saying to you something like 'You know, vell, it's a critical time now for Germany within Europe, also globally, economically ve are pretty good, ve have been better. But ve are very vibrant in the theater and arts...' and all the time you'll be listening to this, you're thinking Mmm, yeah, mmm... Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler... (Dylan Moran)
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. I do not believe that you know. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill. View quote
Virginia Woolf
When Nations grow Old, The Arts grow Cold And Commerce settles on every Tree. View quote
William Blake
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. View quote
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus