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«The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.»
«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.»
Author: Ethel Barrymore | About: Art, Pleasure | Keywords: arts, instantaneous
«The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.»
«The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of»
Author: Ned Rorem (Composer) | About: Music | Keywords: arts
«The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.»
Author: Henry Miller (Author, Writer) | Keywords: arts, serviceable, waking
«Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.»
«To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.»
«The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.»
«There are three arts which are concerned with all things; one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Art | Keywords: arts, concerned, imitates, uses
«Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.»

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