Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,… — William Kittredge
If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as rewarding… — Unknown Author
Kids are always infatuated with the action in Martial Arts Films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the Arts. That… — Thomas Ian Griffith
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets) — Joachim du Bellay
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead. — Warren Adler
The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of… — Herbie Hancock
The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind… — Wayne Shorter
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we… — John F. Kennedy
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and… — Joan Severance
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity… — Irvine Welsh
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to… — Jillian Bach
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking… — Laurie Anderson
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a… — Tony Hillerman
I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe. — Vince Vaughn
The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor. — Chris Hedges
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being… — Milton Glaser
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as… — Norman Cousins
I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts,… — Anna Paquin
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. — Jean Cocteau
One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather… — Georges Braque
The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in… — Jonah Lehrer
We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for… — Sarah Palin

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