T Quotes
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“The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves.”
Source: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New
“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.”
“The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.”
“The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will.”
“The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1987
“The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.”
“The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.”
Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I
“The arts and soldiering took time to acquire – time and discipline and desire. No, he was up against bullies. And bullies were cowards. These were mercenaries who acted for money. Shot as, on the other hand, took great pride that he performed his DUTIES for love of country and, though he didn't quite think of it in those terms, for love of his fellow soldiers.”
Source: Clear and Present Danger
“The Arts and their supporters pointed out that, far from just lifting the poor out of poverty, universal ownership of molecular fabricators could, in terms of material possessions, give everyone everything they needed and leave everyone free to pursue their dreams and full potential, whether academic, physical or creative. There it was, right there. The pursuit of happiness, made reality.
This revelation gave even the most hardened cynics pause for thought.”
Source: Mortlake and Other Stories
“The arts are a green industry with a very high rate of return. This is not money thrown away by any stretch of the imagination. This is money that creates jobs. This is money that brings life, financial life, to communities.”
“The arts are a wonderful medicine for the soul. We’re living through something that is so horrible, but at the same time, we’re realizing how much we need each other. There are good things coming out of this hell.
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“The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.”
“The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due.”
“The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.”
“The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.”
Source: Catherine-Paris
“The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.”
“the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.”
Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography
“The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.”
“The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.”
Source: Visual Thinking
“The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.”
“The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.”
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“The arts are not a way to make a living.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center. They should function not merely as another form of entertainment but, rather, should contribute significantly to our well being and happiness.”
“The arts are not frosting but baking soda.”
“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.”
“The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.”
“The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.”
“The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.”
“The Arts are sisters to the senses.”
Source: Victorine
“The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children.”
“The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.”
“The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis”
Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
“The arts are the hospitals for our souls.”
“The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.”
“The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.”
“The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.”
“The arts are the signature of a nation.”
“The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.”
“The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.”
“The arts, as they develop, grow further apart. Once, song, poetry, and dance were all parts of a single dromenon. Each has become what it now is by separation from the others, and this has involved great losses and great gains. Within the single art of literature, the same process has taken place. Poetry has differentiated itself more and more from prose.”
Source: An Experiment in Criticism
“The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.”
“The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.”
“The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.”
“The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.”
“The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.”