Arts Quotes

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

Same, Tree, Religions

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck

Great, Teacher, Mind

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee

True, Nothing, Special

O, had I but followed the arts!
William Shakespeare

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy

Science, Together, Stars

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau

Quality, Highest, Affect

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Plato

Human, Two, Capable

One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Plato

Success, Cannot, Practice

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken

Life, Truth, Times

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Great, Military, Nor

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Great, Soldier, Far

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Pictures, Stage

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle

Human, Silence, Learn

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James Madison

America, Her, Prosperity

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Congress, Market, Happening

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!
Ansel Adams

Soul, Keep, Alive

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Sophocles

Future, Past, Lost

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid

Character, Study, Faithful

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Courage, Takes, Create

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats

Conscience, Leave, Mankind

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
Aleister Crowley

Difficult, Physics, Practice

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Paracelsus

Thoughts, Energy, Heaven

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.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Beautiful, Moving

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.
Bo Bennett

Character, Fighting, Building

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
Henry Miller

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
Freeman Dyson

Life, God, Technology

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.
Marshall McLuhan

Real, Rather, Means

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
Mao Zedong

Thought, Progress, Culture

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Mason Cooley

Time, Food, Amazing

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