1983 in New Zealand - Arts and Literature

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

“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“But here comes Generosity; giving—not to a decayed artist—but to the arts and sciences themselves.—See,—he builds ... whole schools and colleges for those who come after. Lord! how they will magnify his name!
—One honest tear shed in private over the unfortunate, is worth them all.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“The literature of women’s lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.”
—Phyllis Rose (b. 1942)