Arts Quotes
1445 quotes by 1078 authors
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph…
— Ansel Adams
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support…
— Theodore Bikel
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite…
— David Bowie
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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
— Ray Bradbury
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for…
— Eli Broad
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
— Andre Breton
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One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this…
— Jeff Bridges
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Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
— Eli Broad
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
— Les Brown
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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do…
— Bill Bryson
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Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
— Julie Burchill
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
— Ken Burns
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The arts don't exist in isolation.
— David Byrne
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How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but…
— Nicolas Cage
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Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
— Robert Carlyle
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
— Thomas Carlyle
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
— Jackie Chan
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