Arts
- The Bench (film), a short film from The Northern Film School in the United Kingdom
- The Bench (TV series), a BBC legal drama series set in a Welsh magistrate's court
- The Bench (Hogarth), a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“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)