The Arts
- Billy Watson (actor) (born 1923), actor
- William Watson (actor) (1938–1997), American actor
- William Watson (poet) (1858–1935), English poet
- William Watson (songwriter) (1794–1840), Tyneside concert hall singer and songwriter
- William Watson (writer) (1930–2005), also known as Bill Watson, Scottish writer
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)