Arts Quotes · Page 14

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

— Matthew Morrison

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

— Antony Starr

My own view is that the arts are neither superior nor inferior to anything else that goes on in schools.

— Michael Rosen

Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,

— Donald Judd

“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“If I was not born as a child clergy, nobles, or knights. So I would be an artist.”

— Aslam D. Maysar

“...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.”

— J.G. Ballard

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It…

— Felix Frankfurter

For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate…

— Lloyd Dorfman

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all…

— Anonymous

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things…

— Mahershala Ali

I am very aware of how warmly Scotland is regarded around the world, and a vote for self-determination would raise our international…

— Ken Stott

Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject…

— Gerolamo Cardano

The arts were like, there's no opponent. It's just yourself. I'm not saying they don't make the arts a competition with awards…

— Richard Linklater

School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed…

— Amy Adams

The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us…

— William J. Clinton

I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school,…

— Ben Daniels

“Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military,…

— Stefan Zweig

I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama,…

— J. C. Chandor

“I make so many plans but fail at follow-through. Gemini mind once a mat for you to wipe your feet. I’d beg…

— Donato DiCristino

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing…

— Christian Cooke

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few…

— Henry David Thoreau

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a…

— Tomie dePaola

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

— Susan Neiman

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is…

— Kami Garcia

My parents are super-traditional. To them, any career in the arts - they just wouldn't have it.

— Jax Jones

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

— Annie Parisse

Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.

— Daniel H. Pink

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

— James Heckman

“I’m convinced that the arts could be something of a higher power.”

— Veronika Carnaby

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

— Laura Vandervoort

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso

— Aroha Janet

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

— Rudolf Steiner

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

— Charles M. Blow

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

— Anonymous

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

— Plautus

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

— John Lasseter

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

— Charlie Haden