Arts Quotes · Page 13

“When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a…

— S.M. Stevens

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

— Mary Doria Russell

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

“The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“If I was not born as a child clergy, nobles, or knights. So I would be an artist.”

— Aslam D. Maysar

“...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.”

— J.G. Ballard

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a…

— Tomie dePaola

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

— Susan Neiman

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a…

— Camille Paglia

Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not…

— David Lammy

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

— Jack Lowden

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of…

— Robert Reich

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy.…

— Jim Butcher

When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the…

— John Lasseter

I don't watch TV. Only while I'm doing it do I see it, really. So I don't know anything. I only know…

— Greg Cipes

The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life,…

— John D. Rockefeller III

I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The…

— J. G. Ballard

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts…

— Barbara Jordan

“What was the point of accurately rendering sketches, when everyone could draw up the same picture in their minds? What was special…

— Michael Walterich

“This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How…

— S.M. Stevens

My dad worked at a mechanical factory for 35 years. I grew up in Union City, NJ. My mother is a social…

— Bobby Cannavale

There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when…

— Sam Trammell

I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my…

— John Battelle

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is…

— Kami Garcia

My parents are super-traditional. To them, any career in the arts - they just wouldn't have it.

— Jax Jones

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

— Laura Vandervoort

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

— Rudolf Steiner

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso

— Aroha Janet

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”

— Anonymous

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

— Charles M. Blow

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

— Plautus

Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.

— Daniel H. Pink

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

— James Heckman

“I’m convinced that the arts could be something of a higher power.”

— Veronika Carnaby

“It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.”

— Veronika Carnaby

All martial arts are different. They all got deluded by the sporting aspect.

— Rickson Gracie

The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone.

— Adrian Dunbar

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

— Ken Baumann

I wouldnt be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

— Matthew Morrison