Arts Quotes

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

O, had I but followed the arts!

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

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

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

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.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.