Arts Quotes

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.