Arts
- Dave Thomas (actor) (born 1949), Canadian actor and comedian
- David A. Thomas (voice actor)
- David Thomas (composer) (1881–1928), Welsh composer
- David Thomas (musician) (born 1953), American singer, songwriter, and musician, member of group Pere Ubu
- David Thomas (Dewi Hefin) (1828–1909), Welsh poet and schoolteacher
- David Thomas (singer) (born 1943), British early-music and baroque-music singer
- David St John Thomas (born 1929), English publisher and writer
- Dave Thomas (director), Canadian animation director
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What ails it, intrinsically, is a dearth of intellectual audacity and of aesthetic passion. Running through it, and characterizing the work of almost every man and woman producing it, there is an unescapable suggestion of the old Puritan suspicion of the fine arts as such—of the doctrine that they offer fit asylum for good citizens only when some ulterior and superior purpose is carried into them.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“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.”
—John Drummond (b. 1934)