Arts Quotes

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

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

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

I love the arts.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

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

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

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

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

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

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

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.

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.

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

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

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

I like arts and crafts.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

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.

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

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

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

I've always been interested in martial arts.

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

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.