Quotes About The Arts And Humanities

#1. Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

Lisa Randall

#2. America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Jim Leach

#4. The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

Jim Leach

#5. 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.

Ronald Reagan

#6. Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#7. The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act.

E. M. Forster

#8. As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

Henry Giroux

#9. Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#10. An artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#11. Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#12. There is a Revolution, it's a human and technological revolution

Natasha Tsakos

#13. Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because the liberal arts and humanities have fallen out of favor in a culture that equates education with training.

Henry Giroux

#14. In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.

Danielle Brooks

#15. It is in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough - it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Steve Jobs

#16. While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#17. The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#18. On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

Eva Longoria

#19. Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#20. I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Sue Grafton

#21. There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.

Daniel Keys Moran

#22. Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

Ken Robinson

#23. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#24. I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.

Stephen Furst

#25. I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

Patrick DeWitt

#26. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Ken Robinson

#27. Put the small stuff into perspective. It's better to be wrong and alive than right but eating brains.

Jesse Petersen

#28. Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Auguste Rodin

#29. There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

Israel Zangwill

#30. In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.

Danielle Brooks

#31. Has anyone else noticed that most dreams happen while you're asleep? Makes it a lot harder to remember the details ...

Neil Leckman

#32. He went out of the door, and she watched him through the little window, walking slowly to the door of the church. Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it, and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute.

Alan Paton

#33. I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Steven Pinker

#34. You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#35. Education is not an expense, but it is the capital ready to be invested.
The return depends on the wisdom you gained.

Debasish Mridha