Arts Quotes

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.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

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'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.

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.