Quotes about Arts

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

Our philosophies have tended to split the world in two: "science" deals only with "hard facts," while the "arts" are imagined to deal in nebulous questions of inner meanings. Equally, in popular culture, inner feelings and motivations (" discovering who you really are" or "going with your heart") are regularly invoked as the true personal reality over against mere outward "identities.

But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.

But the magicians did the same thing by their magic arts, and they also brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

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

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.

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 hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.