Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Walter Legge

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Eliza Farnham

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.
Dario Fo

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.
Robert Mondavi

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
Eugenio Montale

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Francisco de Goya

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
Lara St. John

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.
Morton Feldman

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
Brandon Lee

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.
Christina Milian

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
John Drinkwater

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Matthew Arnold

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.
Joachim du Bellay

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
Herb Ritts

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Eduard Hanslick

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

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

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra Pound