Arts Quotes

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

I love the arts.

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

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.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.