Arts Quotes

How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rath...

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injuriou...

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some...

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about grav...

Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older pe...

London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate)...

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a l...

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I jus...

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself int...

...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.

Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that musi...

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is...

Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles o...

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art ...

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have prov...

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the wors...

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of p...

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no powe...

We do not need to explain how the Aryans entered and settled in the Dravidian country (tira¯vit»a na...

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, ...

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety t...

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself....

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?