| "The arts are the servant wisdom its master." »Seneca |
| "There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato |
| "Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe |
| "All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life." »M. C. Richards |
| "Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings." »Vicki Baum |
| "Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." »Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
| "To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." »George Washington |
| "By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows." »Ovid |
| "What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides." »Felix G. Rohatyn |
| "America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White |
| "Charlie You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called F-You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground." »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan |
| "In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat." »Auguste Renoir |
| "He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
| "Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself." »Henry Havelock Ellis |
| "Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences." »Freeman John Dyson |
| "In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton |
| "Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world." »Dave Barry |
| "Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall." »Max Lerner |
| "Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair |
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