Arts Quotes

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.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

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 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.

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

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.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

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.

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

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 became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.