Maria Montessori Quotes

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

We're trying to let people see what their grandfather told them about.

I've always been fascinated by history.

My music is about identity.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

No arts, no letters - no society.

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both.

Contemporary art for me is a real driver; it propels us into the future. And at the same time, it's what connects us to the past, from a perspective of artistic evolution in which the succession of eras and styles gives meaning to creation.

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.