Quotes About Arts

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

Creative Writing Programs, while claiming in all good faith to train professional writers, in reality train more teachers of Creative Writing. The only thing a Master of Fine Arts degree actually qualifies one to do is teach… Fine Arts. - from Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young

It may be that mathematics is not generally recognized as one of the arts precisely because so much pyramidal training and practice is required in order to appreciate its aesthetics; math is perhaps the ultimate in acquired tastes.

Vancouver strikes me as a San Francisco-kind of place.

The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing.

Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.