Arts Quotes

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.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

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.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

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.