Definition of arts

"arts" in the noun sense

1. art, fine art

the products of human creativity works of art collectively

"the college of arts and sciences"

"an art exhibition"

"a collection of fine art"

2. art, artistic creation, artistic production

the creation of beautiful or significant things

"art does not need to be innovative to be good"

"I was never any good at art"

"he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"

3. art, artistry, prowess

a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation

"the art of conversation"

"it's quite an art"

4. artwork, art, graphics, nontextual matter

photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication

"the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book"

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Quotations for arts

Love is master of all arts. [ Italian Proverb ]

The inglorious arts of peace. [ Andrew Marvell ]

Talking is one of the fine arts. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Every art cherishes its sister arts. [ Horace ]

Queen of arts, and daughter of heaven. [ Burke ]

Fortune, my friend, I've often thought
Is weak, if Art assist her not:
So equally all Arts are vain,
If Fortune help them not again. [ Sheridan ]

Necessity is the mistress of the arts. [ Proverb ]

Polite literature; arts in a university.

He that sips of many arts drinks of none. [ Fuller ]

Good manners give integrity a bleeze,
When native virtues join the arts to please. [ Allan Ramsay ]

In time of peace cultivate the arts of peace. [ Alfred the Great ]

Love is the art of hearts, and heart of arts. [ Bailey ]

By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. [ Gay ]

Printing, which is the preservative of all arts. [ Isaiah Thomas ]

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. [ Cicero ]

Arts, commerce, and good government flourish together. [ T. G. Bergen ]

Peace, dear nurse of arts, plenties and joyful births. [ William Shakespeare ]

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation, is the aim. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most. [ Congreve ]

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals. [ Dr. Johnson ]

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other. [ Beaconsfield ]

Ah, to build, to build! that is the noblest art of all the arts. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Hunger is the teacher of the arts, and the bestower of invention. [ Persius ]

Through the arts the wonder of the ignorant multitude is excited. [ Anaxilaus ]

To be instructed in the arts softens the manners and makes men gentle. [ Ovid ]

Honours encourage the arts, for all are incited towards studies by fame. [ Cicero ]

A Burston horse, and a Cambridge master of arts will give the way to nobody. [ Proverb ]

Provocation is one of the arts of coquetry for which virtue often pays the penalty. [ Lingree ]

He who has reason and good sense at his command needs few of the arts of the orator. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. [ John Sheffield ]

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned. [ Chamfort ]

With such deceits he gained their easy hearts, too prone to credit his perfidious arts. [ Dryden ]

The belly (i.e. hunger or necessity) is the teacher of arts and the bestower of genius. [ Pers ]

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. [ H. L. F. Helmholtz ]

From Egypt arts their progress made to Greece, wrapped in the fable of the golden fleece. [ Sir J. Denham ]

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. [ Pope ]

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. [ Francis I ]

These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. [ Virgil ]

The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts is proportioned to that of the public prosperity. [ T. B. Macaulay ]

The pains we take in books or arts which treat of things remote from the necessaries of life is a busy idleness. [ Fuller ]

Learning the liberal arts and sciences thoroughly, softens men's manners, and prevents their being a pack of brutes. [ Ovid ]

Greece, conquered herself, in turn conquered her uncivilised conqueror, and imported her arts into rusticated Latium. [ Horace ]

We speak of profane arts, but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light. [ Tegner ]

What are these wondrous civilizing arts, this Roman polish, and this smooth behavior that render man thus tractable and tame? [ Addison ]

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth - that is the secret of the fine arts. [ Joubert ]

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. [ Emerson ]

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form. It is the finest of the fine arts. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals. [ Macaulay ]

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement. [ Napoleon I ]

As music has been the tardiest of arts to make its way through the great world, so it is peculiarly the tardiest of arts to make its way into a new country. [ T. Tilton ]

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father, the former has intellect; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury. [ Schopenhauer ]

The passions are the celestial fire that vivifies the moral world. It is to them that the arts and sciences owe their discoveries, and man the elevation of his position. [ Helvetius ]

Books, to judicious compilers, are useful, - to particular arts and professions absolutely necessary, - to men of real science they are tools; but more are tools to them. [ Johnson ]

I fancy mankind may come in time to write all aphoristically, except in narration; grow weary of preparation and connection and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. [ Dr. Johnson ]

In the youth of a State, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a State, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise. [ Bacon ]

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union. and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another. [ Cicero ]

The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences. [ Whewell ]

There are many arts among men, the knowledge of which is acquired bit by bit by experience. For it is experience that causes our life to move forward by the skill we acquire, while want of experience subjects us to the effects of chance. [ Plato ]

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. [ Emerson ]

What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting. [ Schlegel ]

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate, depend upon books. [ Richard Aungervyle ]

Remember always in painting, as in eloquence, the greater your strength the quieter will be your manner and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life, the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim. [ Ruskin ]

There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of the beautiful. All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste without respect to the object. They purify the thoughts as tragedy purifies the passions. Their accidental effects are not worth consideration, - there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy. [ Schlegel ]

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and commonsense now assign to it. [ Arago ]

I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore. [ Melmoth ]

Founders and senators of states and cities, lawgivers, extirpers of tyrants, fathers of the people, and other eminent persons in civil government, were honored but with titles of worthies or demigods; whereas such as were inventors and authors of new arts, endowments, and commodities towards man's life, were ever consecrated among the gods themselves. [ Bacon ]

This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

arts in Scrabble®

The word arts is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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arts in Words With Friends™

The word arts is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 4

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