Arts Quotes

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

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.

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.

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

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.