Quotes About Arts

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.