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“Thus, whether it be wit or beauty that a man’s in love with, there are no great hopes of a lasting happiness; beauty, with all the helps of arts, is of no long date; the more it is , the sooner it decays; and he, who only or chiefly chose for beauty, will in a little time find the same reason for another choice.”
Mary Astell (1666–1731) said by 1731 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The seventeenth-century academic separation between fine and useful arts first fell out of fashion nearly a century ago.”
George Kubler (1912–1996) first seen 1400 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Kubler (1961), cited in: Guido Guerzoni (2011). Apollo and Vulcan: The Art Markets in Italy, 1400-1700. p. 27
“I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.”
Hans Haacke (born 1936) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hans Haacke in: Roberta Smith "A Giant artistic Gibe at Jesse Helms," in New York Times, April 20, 1990; Republished in: The New York Times Guide to the Arts of the 20th Century: 1900-1929, (2002) p. 2929
“Ashoka could have been India’s answer to Western liberal arts. It could have been the go-to place for putting Indian civilization on the global stage. But both the elite businessmen that funded the institution, and the government that sought its advice, didn’t care to do basic due diligence.”
Rajiv Malhotra (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Akbar – The great Mogul Emperor of India, the famous patron of religions, arts, and sciences, the most liberal of all the Mussulman sovereigns. There has never been a more tolerant or enlightened ruler than the Emperor Akbar, either in India or in any other Mahometan country.”
Akbar (1542–1605) said by 1605 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: H.P. Blavatsky, Theosophical Glossary, (1892)
“Be this your nobler praise in times to come, These your imperial arts, ye sons of Rome! O'er distant realms to stretch your awful sway, To bid those nations tremble and obey; To crush the proud, the suppliant foe to rear, To give mankind a peace, or shake the world with war.”
Christopher Pitt (1699–1748) first seen 1209 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book VI, line 1209
“Highly correlated brown and black noise patterns do not seem to have seem to have attractive counterparts in the visual arts. There, over-correlation is the order of the day, because it creates the same dramatic associations that we find in attractive natural scenery, or in the juxtaposition of symbols. Somehow, it is tediously predictable when cast in a one-dimensional medium, like sound.”
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It must ever be borne in mind that the prime object of all fine arts is to please through some or other of the emotions which it stirs.”
Alfred Horsley Hinton (1863–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry, perhaps the finest of fine arts, certainly the shynest and most elusive? ,poetry which must have listeners, which cannot sing into a void.”
Harriet Monroe (1860–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Poets life, Seventy Years in Changing the World Macmillan, New York 1938
“ER is a pretty big deal in Croatia. When my agent called and told me about this show, I said, 'Are we talking about the same ER?' And I thought about it for half a second and then said, 'Yes, of course!' I was watching them in Croatia when I was still at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, and now I'm working with them.”
Goran Višnjić (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing about martial arts: People can say this fight game is dangerous and its brutal but my mind is strong. I'm fit in body and mind and that's something that not a lot of other careers can give to a person.”
Conor McGregor (born 1988) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Setanta Sports interview (September 2014)
“Prizefighting is short. Get in. Get rich. Get out. But martial arts is for life. It's for life.”
Conor McGregor (born 1988) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: UFC 178 post-event press conference (September 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
“I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.”
Conor McGregor (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The arts have always transcended national boundaries as the haiku demonstrates.”
William J. Higginson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What do you believe was on the mind of the ancient Romans that they called the arts of speaking humanity? They judged that, indisputably, by the study of these disciplines not only was the tongue refined, but also the wildness and barbarity of people’s minds was amended.”
Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560) said by 1560 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never feel quite complete unless I'm doing all the arts-visual,musical,literary.”
Dick Higgins (1938–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Roman! be thine the sovereign arts of sway; Nobly to rule, and make the world obey: Give peace its laws; respect the prostrate foe: Abase the lofty, and exalt the low.”
Charles Symmons (1749–1826) first seen 1134 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book VI, lines 1134–1137
“When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me "Miss Man." It wasn't until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I'm fabulous.”
Ronda Rousey (born 1987) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 6 Feminist Quotes From Ronda Rousey That Prove She's More Than Just A Trash Talker", in Bustle.com (3 August 2015)
“Various Arts by study might be wrought Up to their height.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then Arts began; fierce toyl through all things breaks, And urgent Want strange Projects undertakes.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For 12 years I have had the honor of teaching geometry and mechanics applied to the arts, in favor of the industrial class... on the most important questions to the well-being, education, and morality of the workers, to the progress of national industry, to the development of all means of prosperity that work can produce for the splendor and happiness of our country.”
Charles Dupin (1784–1873) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Charles Dupin (1831), Discours sur le Sort des Ouvriers [Discourse on the Condition of the Workers] Paris: Bachelier Librairie. p. 1. ; Translation Wren & Bedeian (2005, 73)
“Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”
Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gabrielle Roy, in the back of the Canadian $20 bill (On September 29, 2004, the Bank of Canada issued a $20 bank note in the Canadian Journey Series which included a quotation from Gabrielle Roy book The Hidden Mountain…
“The people who have discovered something important in any of the more noble arts have principally done so when they have abandoned the body and taken refuge in the citadel of the soul.”
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) said by 1499 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The "Baconian" sciences were the kind Francis Bacon had in mind when he issued a call to revitalize science by basing it on craftsmen's knowledge of nature. Bacon is remembered as the most effective critic of the traditional learning promulgated the elite institutions of his day. ...Bacon advocated compiling a "history of arts," or encyclopedia of crafts knowledge...”
Clifford D. Conner (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Moreover, according to Alexander, the “troubled mathematical martyr,” exemplified not only by Galois but also by Abel, János Bolyai, Riemann, Cantor, Gödel, Turing, John Nash, Grothendieck, Perelman, and even, in a certain sense, Cauchy, remains to this day the dominant image of the “ideal mathematician,” long after the romantic paradigm was exhausted in the arts.”
Michael Harris (mathematician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For all families, participation in music and the arts, can help people reclaim and achieve the American dream.”
Linda Ronstadt (born 1946) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Linda Ronstadt, Arts Advocacy Day 2009 Congressional Hearing, 1 May 2009
“I consider this Negro [Benjamin Banneker] as fresh proof that the powers of the mind are disconnected with the colour of the skin or in other words, a striking contradiction to Mr. Hume's doctrine that "the Negroes are naturally inferior to the whites and unsusceptible of attainments in arts and sciences.”
James McHenry (1753–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The persons who are interested in the life of ancient polymaths, devote their life to learn and innovate in sciences, arts, and the transfer of their knowledge to the Iranians and the other nations.”
Taraneh Javanbakht (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being involved in sciences or various arts is not a reason for neglecting the causes of social problems.”
Taraneh Javanbakht (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your mission, Roman, is to rule the world. These will be your arts: to establish peace, To spare the humbled, and to conquer the proud.”
Stanley Lombardo (born 1943) first seen 1016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book VI, lines 1016–1018; Anchises to Aeneas.
“Interpreting the Orient through the arts would destroy it, the artistic exploitation might eventually prove as harmful as military or political adventurism.”
Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Three Nineteenth-Century French Writer/Artists & the Maghreb; Günther Narr, Verlag Tübingen, 1994, p. 51
“Iron and heat are... the supporters, the bases, of the mechanic arts.”
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The monastic movement ... was directed to the achievement of a Christian life, apart from civilization, in obedience to the laws of Christ, and in pursuit of a perfection wholly distinct from the aims that men seek in politics and economics, in sciences and arts.”
H. Richard Niebuhr (1894–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.”
Traci Bingham (born 1968) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Get Ready for the Battle of the Baywatch Babes", interview with TV Guide (25 March 2000).
“The true liberal-arts ideal rejects the reduction of reason to the status of passion's ingenious servant. It is an ideal rooted in the conviction that there are human goods, and a common good, in light of which we have reasons to constrain, to limit, to regulate, and even to alter our desires.”
Robert P. George (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To the spirit of the New China this book is dedicated in the sure belief that her future greatness lies in the knowledge and emulation of her ancient and immortal arts.”
Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark (1894–1945) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Selections from the Works of Su-Tung-P'o (1931), as quoted in The Illustrated London News, Vol. 180 (1932), ed. 1, p. 254
“For the past three years, young Wimfort had enjoyed so ample a competence from his parent, that he’d been able to buy his way deep into the mysteries of the arts of Power. He purchased no real understanding, of course, for that’s bought by the coin of toil and thought.”
Michael Shea (1946–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The low-born, who have been enrolled for practising the baser arts and the meaner professions, are capable only of vices…”
Ziauddin Barani (1285–1357) said by 1357 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they. Chapter 2.
“From the moment they took a republic rather than a monarchy as the shape of their government, Americans prided themselves on being a nation of peace, dedicated to the arts of commerce rather than the rapacity of empire and "the spirit of war.”
Allen C. Guelzo (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't sell anything to the museum nowadays. If one presents something now, one is partly rejected because they have no money in cash. Yes Friend, that's how things are going.. .It's going very bad here with the old arts in The Hague., I hardly hear of anything. How are things going in Rotterdam? I believe that also there is not much moving. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Schelfhout's letter to , 8 Jan. 1825; original text from the letter in the collection of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library), The Hague, no. 133 C12
“[Martial arts training]'s given me a foundation for conditioning, flexibility, patience, focus, dedication. And those carry over to my basketball career. Off the court, I'm more focused, patient, and understanding.”
Robert Parish (born 1953) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One-on-One with Robert Parish", NBA.com (1998).
“Constantius declares a curse on those who perform the magic arts and thereby “jeopardize the lives of innocent persons.”
Constantius II (317–361) said by 361 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was once upon a time a man whom other men called Aben Hassen the Wise. He had read a thousand books of magic, and knew all that the ancients or moderns had to tell of the hidden arts.”
Howard Pyle (1853–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the old, old days when men were wiser than they are in these times, there lived a great philosopher and magician, by name Nicholas Flamel. Not only did he know all the actual sciences, but the black arts as well, and magic, and what not.”
Howard Pyle (1853–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. It's our attempt as humans to build an understanding of the universe, the world around us. It's our attempt to influence things, the universe internal to ourselves and external to us.”
Mae Jemison (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There also must be an internal critique of injustices, of the management of material and human resources, and of abuses of political power. Above all, there must be criticism of the culture itself: its morality, religion, customs, and arts. And there must be demand for respect of the individual's uniqueness, with the society regarded as the medium for individual development and for brotherhood.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Taiwan, we have cultural heritage from (Mainland) China, Japan, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, which has resulted in a deep melting pot of cultures and an acceptance of many cultures. Against that background, we can see diverse traditional arts in Taiwan.”
Hsiao Tsung-huang (born 1958) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hsiao Tsung-huang (2019) cited in "A country's performing arts reflect its democracy: culture minister" on Focus Taiwan, 20 July 2019.
“Commerce creates wealth, and it is the foundation of the great state. Armies are raised and paid for to win, or to protect the countries' trade, or commerce. Ships are constructed, colonies established, inventions encouraged, governments built up, or pulled down, for Commerce. Commerce cuts the way, and all professions, all arts follow.”
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Commerce is necessary to wealth, no Commerce means no wealth, and our statesman soon finds himself out of employment. Where wealth again is greatest, everything else being fairly equal, arts thrive the most.”
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I said often about the Black Power/Black Arts Movements: we need our history, our culture, our literature. And this is what a whole multicultural generation of lesbians engaged in the 1980’s – creating cultural institutions so that we could live our lives with determination, decision, and yes, of course, pride.”
Cheryl Clarke (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source