Arts Quotes

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

~ Natasha Tsakos

Poets must be grounded in the education of the arts, drama, history, mysticism, esotericism, and philosophy. To gain knowledge and become learned of the above is easy - read. Poets should apply this knowledge to their work, so a poet will advance to the next level, to their next phase of their emotional, psychological and spiritual development, growing in years in a short space of time, in hours or months if he or she is an avid reader. This knowledge will birth work that is not meretricious but of noble parentage.

~ Abigail George

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

~ Damien Hirst

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

~ Andrew James Pritchard

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

~ Edw. C

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A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

~ Christopher Bram

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

~ Luhraw

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

~ David Mccullough

The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.

~ T.a. Uner

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for which their professional specialisation has no use but by which their conversation profits.

~ Marcel Proust

It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they've taken from the ground in the mining spirit without making or creating, and therefore anything that is creative they do not understand.

~ Theresa Sjoquist

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

~ Eli Broad

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

~ Anne Archer

My exercise regime is a mix of gymming, marital arts, sports, etc.

~ Sushant Singh Rajput

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

~ Tony Visconti

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

~ Moshe Safdie

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

~ Ernest Dimnet

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

~ Julie Taymor

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

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

~ Barbara Januszkiewicz

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

~ Thomas Wolfe

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

~ Henry Miller

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

~ Conrad Hall

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

~ Alfred De Vigny

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

~ Jim Leach

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

~ Gavin Newsom

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

~ Henry David Thoreau

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

~ Plato

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

~ Seamus Heaney

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

~ Eugenio Montale