Quotes About Arts

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.