arts

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.

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

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

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

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.