it’s all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

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

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!

A lot of people don’t realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you’re not just performing martial arts. You’re not just performing martial arts. You’re actually acting as much as any other...

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, “If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don’t have...

The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts...

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom...

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

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

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or...

The arts are a major life nourishment.

Support for the arts — merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”[Moral...

Ars longa vita brevis

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that...

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of...

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we’d be too busy en-joy-in’ life to start a war.

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.

Poets must be grounded in the education of the arts, drama, history, mysticism, esotericism, and philosophy. To gain knowledge and become learned of the above is easy – read. Poets should apply this knowledge to...

Maybe it’s the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by younger people who not only consume art but study it for clues on...

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is...

Sum of life’s reflections projected by nature and through some forms of intimacy, conceived and appreciated by the soul-beigns – …art!

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

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

I do feel I’m being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with ‘Mortal Kombat.’

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were – you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very...

It’s very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they’re allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they’ve taken from the ground in...

Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of...

The Christian should be the man with the flaming imagination and the beauty of creation.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I’m a second-degree black belt.