Arts Quotes · Page 10

“All that's really required is that anything the state does in relation to the arts is laid on the table where we…

— Ian McEwan

I used to do martial arts when I was a kid but I stopped when I was pretty young.

— Isa Briones

The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.

— Julie Andrews

The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported.

— Rod Lurie

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

— Bertolt Brecht

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

— Marsilio Ficino

I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.

— Glenne Headly

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in…

— Herb Alpert

I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black…

— JWoww

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide…

— Marshall McLuhan

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required…

— Gavin Newsom

Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London's leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in…

— Lloyd Dorfman

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That…

— F. Sionil Jose

I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great…

— Derek Hough

I'm not really a musical family, like none of my sisters or my parents sing or play anything, but they're all very…

— Ruel

I can truthfully say, in arts I have pretty much seen and done it all and, at my age, I have no…

— Donald Lambert

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some…

— Daniel Greenberg

“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

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As…

— Arne Duncan

“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

How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?…

— Barbra Streisand

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep…

— Joy Covey

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as…

— Francis G. Slay

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

— Steven Pressfield

I ran to the arts, because the arts are the one thing that would never abandon me.

— Goldie

The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

— Elliot W. Eisner

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

— Alan Greenspan

I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.

— Ellar Coltrane

That's the great part about arts - someone taking your work and making it something else; it's becomes a true collaboration.

— Tim Minchin

I wasn't available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would've been lost.

— Afeni Shakur

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

— Gavin Creel

“Artist in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.”

— Marsilio Ficino

The arts are tremendously powerful in bringing people with opposing views together.

— Michael Feinstein

“When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.”

— Donna Goddard

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

— Julie Andrews

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to…

— Philippe Petit

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

— Oscar Wilde

I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.

— Wong Kar-wai

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

— Lawren Harris