Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance… — Frederick Lenz
I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally. — Frederick Lenz
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz
Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that… — Frederick Lenz
If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial… — Frederick Lenz
The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions.… — Frederick Lenz
The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with… — Frederick Lenz
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around,… — Rachael Taylor
"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles,… — Abraham Cowley
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't… — Jonathan Lethem
I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts. — Marla Sokoloff
I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy,… — Aisha Tyler
You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era… — Julie Taymor
Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and… — Joshua Waitzkin
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because… — Joshua Waitzkin
Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that… — Jeffrey Sachs
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means… — John Calvin
Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on… — John Walford
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely… — John Walford
More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined. — Melvyn Bragg
I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question. — Isaiah Mustafa
I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it… — Thomas McDonell
All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year. — Ann Macbeth
I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From… — Merritt Wever
The arts saved my life. — Michael K. Williams

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