Quotes: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 VidalNo
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 HobbesThe martial
arts films and then the gangster films - They're brilliant. [on Asian cinema]
View quotes by John CarpenterI 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 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 EllisAmong the
arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind
View quotes by David HumeAs 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 McLuhanIf the
arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
View quotes by Richard EyreI look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine
arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore
View quotes by William MelmothThis 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.
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