Arts Quotes · Page 11

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

— William Boyd

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

— Nell Scovell

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

— Melvyn Bragg

“The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.”

— Timothy Simpson

I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.

— Tony Jaa

Mixed martial arts or whatever you want to call it, it is still martial arts.

— Frank Shamrock

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

— John Dewey

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither…

— Scott Adkins

'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff, very little in the way…

— Henry Cavill

I have always been a martial arts fighter; it goes to back when I was eighteen. I was competing on the circuit,…

— Jason David Frank

The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and…

— Johnny Flynn

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and…

— Walter Kirn

“The arts vividly illustrate the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits…

— Rachelle Doorley

I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy…

— Peter Greenaway

Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies…

— Wole Soyinka

I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents'…

— Roger Bart

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

Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian…

— Robert Webb

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school…

— Erich Bergen

Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it…

— Michael C. McMillen

“The Theater resides at the intersection of education and the arts. The arts are seen as a set of media with a…

— Philip Taylor

“Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by…

— David Foster Wallace

I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when…

— Lainie Kazan

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!”

— Veronika Carnaby

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

— Chris Hedges

“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.”

— Charles Ray

“With crafting, you can never make a mistake because it's your own unique creation.”

— Heidi Rew

“The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud a farce of frivolous trite The storybook is blank inside Chivalry has died”

— Donato DiCristino

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say…

— Robert Brustein

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

— Sally Kirkland

I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

— Steve Martin

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

— Barry Keoghan

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.

— George Miller

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

— Amber Riley

A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.

— Randy Couture

I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.

— Ann Makosinski

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

— Stephen Wallem