Arts Quotes · Page 8

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

— Suzanne Farrell

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

— Mae Jemison

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

— Joel Edgerton

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

— Martin Parr

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

— Gyles Brandreth

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Philip Kitcher

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

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

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

— Andrew Garfield

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

— Dante Ferretti

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

No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a…

— Jami Attenberg

A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture…

— Gulzar

I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like…

— Victor Webster

I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came…

— Jack Lowden

I don't see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser,…

— Richard Linklater

I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I…

— Laura Mennell

“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Many concepts and ideas become laws in time, like the laws of physics. In time, many of these same concepts lose validity…

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

— Joel Barlow

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 division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest…

— Jacques Maritain

I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of…

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

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

— Condola Rashad

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

— Sam Heughan

“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

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

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

— Caleb McLaughlin

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

— Katheryn Winnick

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

— Kevin Dillon

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

— Stan Brakhage

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