Top Arts Quotes
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
Jonathan Lethem
I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.
Claire Forlani
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Paracelsus
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
Richard Price
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
Ann Macbeth
Sophocles 
Paul Gauguin 
Stephen Cole Kleene 
Jean Tinguely 
Daniel Webster 
Claire Forlani 
Vivienne Westwood 
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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
Antoine Lavoisier 
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The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.
Peter Maxwell Davies
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I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Hedy Lamarr
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I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.
Dorothy Fields
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
Felix de Weldon
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster
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Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.
Shana Alexander
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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Pauline Kael
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