Arts Quotes · Page 11

All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.

— Josh Groban

We need, let's say, municipal digital platforms, for teaching, for schooling, for education, but also, of course, for the arts.

— Hito Steyerl

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.

— Sebastian Thrun

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.

— Melvyn Bragg

The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.

— Sarah Carter

I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.

— Kym Whitley

Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

— Richard Dawkins

My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics…

— John Van Hamersveld

I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss - but the arts are vital. If you see Mark…

— Andrew Garfield

I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that…

— Zhu Zhu

I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film,…

— Paddy Considine

“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.”

— Sara Sheridan

The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our…

— Gavin Newsom

More and more I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it’s important that I…

— Yayoi Kusama

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town…

— Dante Ferretti

Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come…

— Barack Obama

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some…

— Richard Eyre

“Why do you choose to write about such gruesome subjects? I usually answer this with another question: Why do you assume that…

— Stephen King

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by…

— John Ridley

“Can-Do Attitude: Essential to develop because all along the way people will hit you with questions like: Is it worth it? Why…

— Teddy Hayes

In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle…

— Danielle Brooks

The arts have always been a huge part of my life and experience. The arts are where we get to reflect on…

— Noah Reid

“Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a…

— Christopher McDougall

“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”

— César Vallejo

I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.

— Katheryn Winnick

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

— Norm Dicks

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

— Donna Goddard

Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.

— Mark Noble

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

— Fannie Farmer

I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.

— Ritika Singh

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

— David McCullough

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

— Aimee Bender

My career would not exist if not for the arts in the schools when I grew up.

— Philip Bailey

“There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!”

— Fossil Mountain Publishing Editor

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

— Chick Corea

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

— Theodore Bikel

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.

— Anoushka Shankar

My parents were involved in the record industry, so I was exposed to the arts very early.

— Max Greenfield

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

— Ovid