Fine Arts

Famous quotes containing the words fine arts, fine and/or arts:

    “When a girl of today leaves school or college and looks about her for material upon which to exercise her trained intelligence, there are a hundred things that force themselves upon her attention as more vital and necessary than mastering the housewife.”
    —Cornelia Atwood Pratt, U.S. author, women’s magazine contributor. The Delineator: A Journal of Fashion, Culture and Fine Arts (January 1900)

    “As to honour—you know—it’s a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn’t theirs.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    “Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)