Arts Quotes · Page 8

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

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

— Philip Pullman

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

— Martin Parr

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

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

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

— John F. Kennedy

I have long argued for the arts to have the recognition and funding they need, not only because they brighten our lives,…

— Luciana Berger

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts…

— Anonymous

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures…

— Barbara Kruger

Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II…

— Peter Marino

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory…

— Elbert Hubbard

I've trained in wing chung, jeet kune do, I've indulged in many arts that people would not have thought I have trained…

— Frank Mir

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was…

— Tao Lin

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively…

— Michelle Obama

“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 went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and…

— Jake Epstein

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

“London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate) of Flat 21, Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk,…

— David Lodge

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

Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't…

— Aya Cash

I think, anyone in the arts, you're self-employed; it's so difficult.

— Sam Heughan

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

— Condola Rashad

I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.

— Josh Keaton

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

— Kristen Wiig

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

— Meryl Streep

In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts…

— Danielle Brooks

“Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.”

— Anthea Syrokou

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

— Mark Dacascos

Compared to boxing, acting is more difficult. I have learnt martial arts and boxing since childhood. So, they were easier.

— Ritika Singh

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

— Jonathan Pryce

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.

— Henry David Thoreau

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

— James Earl Jones

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

— Arthur Miller

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

— Rosie Perez

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

— Matthew Morrison

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

— Michael Rosen