Arts Quotes · Page 10

When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.

— Martin Parr

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

— Joel Edgerton

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

— Philip Pullman

When I was an MP, I worked at the department where we gave honors to people from the arts world, I was…

— Gyles Brandreth

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

— Philip Kitcher

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

— Henry Rollins

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

— Cameron Monaghan

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the…

— Santiago Calatrava

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the…

— Tamara Taylor

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a…

— Camille Paglia

It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we…

— Common

I took myself out of the business to study film at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. I grew up on…

— Devin Ratray

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with…

— Aberjhani

It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke…

— Anthony McCarten

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill…

— Naomi Alderman

I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade.…

— Shiv Khera

“New concepts or laws would not be possible without the preceding concepts or laws. What we refuse today as incorrect is the…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Work out really hard and be confident because bodies are beautiful, sensual and natural. I've also trained in Wushu, a form of…

— Jessica Clark

I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there,…

— Alan Arkin

The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas.…

— Joel Barlow

Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard…

— Hillary Clinton

I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006…

— Abbi Jacobson

“The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists…

— Natalie Haynes

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

— John F. Kennedy

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

— Hillary Clinton

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

2017 is going to be the biggest year for martial arts in the history of the Earth.

— B. J. Penn

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

— Stan Brakhage

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

My exercise regime is a mix of gymming, marital arts, sports, etc.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

— Idina Menzel

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

— Melvyn Bragg

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

— Robert Carlyle

Martial arts is what pulled me through tough times, and it is one of the reasons for my happiness.

— Tiger Shroff

“Go out and support the arts in your towns and neighborhoods. You strengthen humanity each time...in the process.”

— Timothy Pina

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

— Karen Kain

I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.

— Katheryn Winnick

God has called me to do this thing called acting and the performing arts.

— Caleb McLaughlin

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.

— Kevin Dillon