Arts Quotes

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.