Arts Quotes

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.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

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.

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.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

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.