Arts Quotes

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.