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But the one thing you should not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts only.
View quotes by Ezra Pound

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
View quotes by Thomas Beecham

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. (Leviathan)
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts
View quotes by Paul Gauguin

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)
View quotes by Joachim Du Bellay

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul
View quotes by Ernest Dimnet

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

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
View quotes by Ansel Adams

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
View quotes by Ezra Pound

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
View quotes by Edward Gibbon

This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty - this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.

View quotes by Thomas Mann

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhan

I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I
View quotes by Talisa Soto

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
View quotes by Theodore H White

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
View quotes by Tom Wolfe

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
View quotes by Charles Kettering

I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.
View quotes by Gore Vidal

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.
View quotes by Havelock Ellis

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.
View quotes by Simone Weil

From Egypt arts their progress made to Greece, wrapped in the fable of the golden fleece.
View quotes by Sir John Denham



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