Arts Quotes

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.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

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.

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

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.