Arts Quotes

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.