Arts Quotes - page 12

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors. (O. R. Melling)
I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is. View quote
Paddy Considine
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense. View quote
Peter Maxwell Davies
Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow. View quote
Penelope Keith
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office. View quote
Ralph Allen
Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. View quote
Rod Taylor
I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting. View quote
Roger Bart
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite. View quote
Ron Silver
I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts. View quote
Rosanna Arquette
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings. (Richard Eyre)
I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger. View quote
Sloane Crosley
I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools. View quote
Sally Kirkland
With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education. View quote
Sally Kirkland
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. View quote
Sam Abell
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. View quote
Steve Case
I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan. View quote
Sung Hi Lee
I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality. View quote
Sydney Pollack
There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried. View quote
Sam Trammell
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. View quote
Samuel George Morton
I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying. (Scott Adkins)
In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great. View quote
Tim DeKay
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. View quote
Tomie dePaola
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 newspaper editor and went back to college. View quote
Tony Hillerman
The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. View quote
Townsend Harris