Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt. — Laura Vandervoort Copy Share Image
¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
People in the performing arts have a lot of other skills they don't realize they can utilize, and part of what the… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I stay in New York is because you're always around so many other types of arts, and it's… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
My husband and I were excited about having a kid - it was having a baby that had us worried. We had… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I've been into martial arts since I was 12. I had black belts in a style called Tang Soo Do, and also… — Bruce Buffer Copy Share Image
I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's only fashion, that in the end… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that… — Rod Paige Copy Share Image
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“I've also now been around enough people who have a low opinion of anyone who's creative in a non-professional realm to know… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
“Living the artist’s life, it turns out, is full of surprises. Yes, it is about being sensitive to beauty, about creating exquisite… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school… — Erich Bergen Copy Share Image
I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the… — Ron Silliman Copy Share Image
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay… — Jerome Robbins Copy Share Image
Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“... when people are getting poorer, and children are growing more hungry and sick all around you, it is simply not enough… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms -… — Kurt Angle Copy Share Image
I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry… — Luc Dardenne Copy Share Image
I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play. — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and… — Paige O'Hara Copy Share Image
The more film festivals, theatrical shows, and music performances and visual arts we have, the less chances there are for war. Art… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical… — Heather Dubrow Copy Share Image
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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