Arts Quotes

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.

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.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.