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“Reflecting on the Preamble of the United States Constitution, `We, the People...`includes all races and ethnicities, all ages and sexes, all creeds of beliefs, religions, and spiritualities, to be re-embrace and made anew in 2021. GIAA is resolute with our efforts to nuture these words...The Arts are the crossroads all societies meet.”
Carson Grant (born 1950) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Carlo Fiorletta, "AEMI Diversity conference featuring members Carson Grant and Tonille Watkis transcripts", ``GIAA: Guild of Italian American Actor blog``, February 11, 2021, p.1
“However, living in Tel Aviv, he was spared the fate of equivalent figures in English culture, an endless round of arts programmes where those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will be remembered only for remembering someone else.”
Alan Bennett (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.”
Luis Barragán (1902–1988) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Contemporary Architects (1980) by Muriel Emanuel, p. 72
“I welcome the opportunity to express my admiration for the United States of America, generous patron of the arts and sciences, which — as in so many instances — has transcended its geographical frontiers and purely national interests to confer this high distinction on a son of Mexico, thus recognizing the universality of cultural values and, in particular, those of my native country.”
Luis Barragán (1902–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.”
Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“New York has been, and will continue to be, a magnet for people from all over the world. This is where the arts, business, research and technology converge to create the world's foremost urban economy.”
Michael Bloomberg (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Late Shri. Cakyar, was not just a skilled exponent and a capable teacher of Kutiyattam, his wisdom and depth of knowledge made him worthy of the title "Acharya" ” - Dr. Prem Lata Sharma (noted Hindi writer and scholar of Indian arts and literature), 1994”
Mani Madhava Chakyar (1899–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The depth of creativity of the author (Mani Madhava Chakyar) is evident from the introductory Shlokas (hymns in Sanskrit) itself ” - Dr. Prem Lata Sharma (noted Hindi writer and scholar of Indian arts and literature)”
Mani Madhava Chakyar (1899–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“PROUN alters the conventional forms of the arts and leaves behind the image of the petty individualist, who locked himself in his office and hid seated before a drawing easel, starting one picture and finishing another.”
El Lissitsky (1890–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music is arguably the most affecting of the arts; intelligible to all people yet untranslatable into any other idiom. To Schopenhauer it was a direct expression of the ‘world will’... and was good when he had guests over.”
Derren Brown (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These accomplishments are what make a home comfortable.” Melody said, “I thought that a home was made comfortable by those who live in it and their regard for one another.” “This is true, Miss Melody, but if one presumes the affection which should be in all homes, then those homes which are most comfortable are also those which possess an understanding and appreciation for the arts.”
Mary Robinette Kowal (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.”
Anthony Lewis (1927–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.”
Sallustius (400–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney is a disaster-area, and not of the merely passive kind, like a bombed building, or an area that has been flooded. It is the active kind, like a badly-leaking nuclear reactor, or an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle.”
David Stove (1927–1994) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A farewell to Arts, Quadrant, May 1986
“Enduring fame is ever posthumous. The orbs of virtue and genius seldom culminate during their terrestrial periods. Slow is the growth of great names, slow the procession of excellence into arts, institutions, life. Ages alone reflect their fulness of lustre. The great not only unseal, but create the organs by which they are to be seen. Neither Socrates nor Jesus is yet visible to the world.”
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion.”
John Roecker (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the notion of progress in the arts, (either spiritually or artistically) has been discredited by many respectable intellects (Kierkegaard and Baudelaire above all, both of whom encountered the idea when it first reared itself in its present form in Europe).”
Patrick Swift (1927–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.”
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment… Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society).”
Merold Westphal (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no economic solution to the ills of the world until the arts of originality […] open the partialities and biases of tradition in ways that address the very core of our pre-possessions.”
Wilson Harris (1921–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The arts have to be pursued irrespective of what people think.”
Wilson Harris (1921–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Travel within thyself! The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought, cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I]t would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.”
Alice Meynell (1847–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“all the arts feed each other (1980)”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”
Ernest Dimnet (1866–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“World views, as related to the sciences, ethics, arts, politics and religions, are integral parts of all cultures. They have a strongly motivating and inspiring function. A socially shared view of the whole gives a culture a sense of direction, confidence and self-esteem. Moreover, interactions between cultures change constantly.”
Diederik Aerts (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Roger B. Smith] identified the following skills and mental processes required of today’s managers as those acquired and sharpened in the study of the liberal arts.”
Roger Smith (executive) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We communicate with each other to inform, to instruct, to persuade, to amuse, to annoy. Informing and instructing aim to alter the receiver's concepts, whereas persuading, amusing or annoying aim to change his preferences or feelings. In a work situation people do make jokes and enemies, and use the arts of persuasion, but much of their communication has an informal or instructional aspect.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.”
Julie Burchill (born 1959) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Spectator (16 January 1992); cited in: Ned Sherrin (2008) Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. p. 170
“Artists have, for the most part, bound themselves down to follow a blind routine. Noble exceptions, however, have presented themselves. Nicholas Poussin, one of the most profound thinkers, whom the arts have produced, took care to correct and regulate by the antique the proportions which Leon Baptista Alberti and Albert Durer had given from the living model.”
Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Germans have a rather healthy respect for the arts and artists, [could] not be more different from the British perspective.”
Anish Kapoor (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the UK, while the arts are the second biggest sector after banking, they probably form less than one tenth of 1% of government spending. It's completely scuzzy.”
Anish Kapoor (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the nation they draw all the benefits of civilisation, enlightenment, progress, and social and political institutions, as well as advances in the arts and sciences.”
Friedrich List (1789–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our arts, particularly music, are more livelier than any sport. I play with my `raagas.' And there is no defeat here. Only victory for everyone - singers, listeners and the music itself.”
M. Balamuralikrishna (1930–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The strategic act by which Grosseteste and his thirteenth- and fourteenth-century successors created modern experimental science was to unite the experimental habit of the practical arts with the rationalism of twelfth-century philosophy.”
Alistair Cameron Crombie (1915–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The intellect," says Aristotle... "is perfected, not by knowledge but by activity..." and... "The arts and sciences are powers, but every power exists only for the sake of action; the end of philosophy... is not knowledge, but the energy conversant about knowledge.”
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I should have done my novel before this, but I was a journalist and a junkie for 20 years and unlike the junkie cliché, I had good jobs all over the world. I was a books editor, I did financial journalism for Asia Week for five years, I was Bombay correspondent for the South China Morning Post for 18 months, I worked for every newspaper in India doing arts journalism. I was a hardworking junkie.”
Jeet Thayil (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The opposition between structure and sonority in music is almost as misleading as that between line and color in the visual arts. Baudelaire insisted, correctly, that Delacroix was one of the three greatest draftsmen of the century, and emphasized his mastery of line. In the same way, a study of Chopin demonstrates the intimate relation between line and color in music.”
Charles Rosen (1927–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the things of the spirit, the arts of the country, which have always led mankind forward, and it is to this spirit that the craftsmen of the world must lend themselves.”
Aileen Osborn Webb (1892–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zaiden, Emily. "Craft In America / The American Craft Council and Aileen Osborn Webb." Craft In America / The American Craft Council and Aileen Osborn Webb. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2013. .
“Just as towers and crenellations indicated a building’s status, so the crenellated wall signified a castle in the visual arts and in that distinctive medieval sign language known as heraldry. The heraldic symbol of the kingdom of Castile, for example, consisted of a wall and three crenellated towers. This simple composition was easily recognized and reproduced.”
Marilyn Stokstad (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A mere savage, ignorant and brutal, and the creature of appetite alone, can never rise from his degradation, until he has learned to draw from the mineral kingdom the instruments of arts and civilization, or, at least, to use the aids that are thus obtained. The axe, the hoe, the plough, the loom, are inseparable means and companions of his advancement.”
Gideon Mantell (1790–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Imitation, in the arts, is less harmful than rules.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.”
Apollonius of Tyana (15–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those on the side of the Mahdi (pbuh) would always talk about stopping the bloodshed, about love, compassion, freedom, peace, science, arts and aesthetics.”
Adnan Oktar (born 1956) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 16 June 2013.
“[O]f all the arts, music makes the most direct appeal to the emotions and to those shadowy, but real portions of our being called the imagination and the soul. Emotion is as indispensible to music as love to religion.”
Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the peculiar characteristics of music is that it is both the most natural and least artificial of the arts, and as well the most complicated and subtle.”
Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain.”
Daniel Levitin (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As nations advance towards civilisation it becomes less needful for them to contend with one another for land and food to support their increasing numbers, because their increased control of the industrial arts enables them to gain what they want by conquering nature instead of conquering their fellow-men.”
J. A. Hobson (1858–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much individual enterprise in industry does not make for industrial progress. A larger and larger proportion of the energy given out in trade competition is consumed in violent warfare between trade rivals and is not represented either in advancement of industrial arts or in increase of material wealth.”
J. A. Hobson (1858–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source