Quotes about arts

I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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

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

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards fre

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate) of Flat 21, Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, the distinguished author is dying - slowly, but surely. In Flanders, less than two hundred miles away, other men are dying more quickly, more painfully, more pitifully - young men, mostly, with their lives still before them, blank pages that will never be filled. The author is seventy-two. He has had an interesting and varied life, written many

The Magician makes the visible, invisible.The Scientist makes the invisible, visible.The Artist stands in between, indivisible.

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

In art, music, and writing, if it's not of the heart, it means nothing.

Creativity is the DNA of innovation, the virus of evolution, the antidote to automation

If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.

The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!

I don’t want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I’d rather bring something new to the table that’s true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to. That’s the whole point, isn’t it?

It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.

Give a poet a pen

The kingdom of God works in all spheres of culture, whether church, family, education, government, arts, business, or media. It is time to stop operating under the mindset that these spheres ought to be separated into secular and Christian, hoarding all the ‘sanctified spheres’ into the church, thereby leaving the world struggling in a vacuum of death. When we suck all the living water into the church, the world is left to die of thirst.

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college.

It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.

Art is the medicine for the soul.

How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is.

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

The data on the economic utility of artists is really, really strong. Artists and entrepreneurs are the same people...and of course entrepreneurs are the people who provide all of the vision for the entire capitalist system. They're absolutely necessary.But conservatives tend to be so blind to art that they can't even see that the artists are the ones who drive the economy forward!

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Art fuels the fire inside me.

Note to myself - It is time for me to start taking my guitar lessons. One of my neighbor's singing and guitar strumming skills are so cool that I can't stop marveling at the music wafting around here.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

To create different work, one needs new tools and materials

Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

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

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." (first published 1937)]

Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment "seen" that everything which is good, is loved and lovable, loved by God! Such certainties all mean, at bottom, one and the same thing: that the world is plumb and sound; that everything comes to its appointed goal; that in spite of all appearances, underlying all things is - peace, salvation, gloria; that nothing and no one is lost; that "God holds in his hand

Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!

Music fountains from purity, travels through serenity and dissolves with tranquility.

Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!

We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking.

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

Creativity is the most supreme form of love. When it flows from any heart flooded by truth and light, it can change all those who encounter its seductive vibrations.

The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

A midst deceit I found the truth;there in the rough I found a diamond.And from the moment we met,I think of no one elseToday I choose to be, to live and breathe;to dream, to weep, and to sing in free verse.And you, the object of my delight:a like-minded opposite I am myself with,a mind-fuck times six, seven, eight thousand and three.I know that you love me with every inch of your deep.

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

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

God plants the talent and it grows, sustained by a spirit-given strength to endure, even in the midst of darkness. It thrives in the valleys of life and ignores the peaks. It blooms like a flower when cradled by the warmth of the sun. It remains in a hidden stairwell in a concentration camp. It grows, fed in secret, in the heart of every artist.

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

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

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

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

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

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

The arts vividly illustrate the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.

We do not need to explain how the Aryans entered and settled in the Dravidian country (tira¯vit»a na¯» t»u), and subjugated and oppressed the Dravidians. Nor do we need to explain how before the Aryans entered the Dravidian country, the Dravidian country had a civilization and arts of the highest rank.

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.

This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How scary was that? I had tampons and pads and everything in there. He was going to be naked in the shower on the other side of my bedroom wall. And I was going to be naked in the shower with him in my house.

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

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?

We are not here to question the possible,we are here to challenge the impossible

There are 2 types of artist:those who create for others in mindthose who create for themselveseither way, none are truly independent.

As I sit here on a snowy morning watching the flakes gently fall outside my window, I look at the 300-year-old building across the street and the beautifully carved angels on its facade. There was a time people would create, just to give something beautiful to the world which we are so blessed to live in and a time when people understood the work of all of the arts.

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than public suffering.

There is a Revolution, it’s a human and technological revolution

I'm a Joker. Dangerous and silly at the same time.

The hardest step in learning flamenco dance is the first one the student takes into the studio.

Dance Like A Pronunciation

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

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

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The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas