Quotes About Arts

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

Education in the ingenious arts and in the liberal professions is still more tedious and expensive. The pecuniary recompense, therefore, of painters and sculptors, of lawyers and physicians, ought to be much more liberal; and it is so accordingly.

No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country. After what are called the fine arts, and the liberal professions, however, there is perhaps no trade which requires so great a variety of knowledge and experience.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

the Medicis, an Italian noble family that produced three popes and two queens of France. Cosimo the Elder was the first to rule Florence, while Lorenzo the Magnificent was a patron of the arts, with clients that included Michelangelo and Botticelli.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

At the movies — in the arts — conservative reality almost always comes disguised as fantasy whereas leftist fantasy comes disguised as reality!

The inglorious arts of peace.

The same arts that did gain A power, must it maintain.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

My parents were very encouraging in having us get into the arts, whereas I have a lot of friends that didn't have that.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life.

Miss Goodblatt would call on me to read. She said I had a talent. So on a whim, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.

The people who fund the arts, provide the arts, and research the arts have all produced a consensus about the value of what they do, which hardly anyone challenges. But do the numbers add up? For all the claims made about the arts, how accurate are they?

I started out producing theatre in New York.

The creative sector is incredibly important to London's economy in a number of different ways.

I majored in drama and theater arts at Columbia and was always in acting studio, but that was a liberal arts degree, not a bachelor of arts degree, so I didn't have a traditional conservatory training. There was a lot of reading and a lot of writing involved, and only about 30 percent of my classes were directly theater-related.