Arts Quotes

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.