Arts Quotes - page 10

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. (Edward H. Levi)
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts. View quote
Edward H. Levi
Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience. View quote
Felix de Weldon
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. View quote
Francis I of France
As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way. View quote
Frank Delaney
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom. View quote
Gordon Gee
I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing. View quote
Gail Porter
Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today. View quote
Greg Cipes
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. View quote
Gavin Newsom
We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality. View quote
Gavin Newsom
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. (Gavin Newsom)
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. View quote
Gavin Newsom
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science. View quote
Geoffrey Canada
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. View quote
Herb Ritts
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. View quote
Hal Sparks
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. View quote
Harrison Salisbury
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. View quote
Harry Mathews
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. View quote
J. Carter Brown
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years. View quote
Jenna Ushkowitz
People have had certain ­assumptions in the past about ­Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively ­reduce. View quote
Jeremy Hunt
The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times. (Jim Leach)
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. View quote
John Drinkwater
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them. View quote
Jacques Audiard
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. View quote
Jacques-Louis David
Im an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school. View quote
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