Arts Quotes · Page 15

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Through the arts, you can impact upon people's attitudes, values, and understandings.

— Yolanda King

Connecticut's arts community provides an incredible amount of good for our state and supports thousands of jobs.

— Ned Lamont

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

— Peter Guber

After quitting my job with Sea Rock, I became a Mukta Arts flunky.

— Ronit Roy

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

— Antony Starr

“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Michael Rosen

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

— Dante Ferretti

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

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

— Jami Attenberg

I took myself out of the business to study film at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. I grew up on…

— Devin Ratray

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with…

— Aberjhani

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill…

— Naomi Alderman

It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke…

— Anthony McCarten

People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the…

— Jeremy Hunt

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“God, or to put it better, our idea of God, is a concept before anything else. The way God had been (mainly)…

— Dejan Stojanovic

I give talks to theater arts departments, and I don't know what I'll say. I don't plan a thing. It's just the…

— Anthony Zerbe

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

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all…

— Derek Bok

Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education,…

— Nimrat Kaur

“That which we never question is the concept itself. But what is a concept? Is it necessary to put the idea of…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,

— Donald Judd

In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.

— James M. Barrie

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

— Germaine Greer

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

— Matthew Morrison

“There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!”

— Fossil Mountain Publishing Editor

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

— Chick Corea

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.

— Anoushka Shankar

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

— Theodore Bikel

My parents were involved in the record industry, so I was exposed to the arts very early.

— Max Greenfield

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

— Ovid

Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.

— Mark Noble

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

— Fannie Farmer

I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.

— Ritika Singh

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

— David McCullough

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

— Aimee Bender

My career would not exist if not for the arts in the schools when I grew up.

— Philip Bailey