Arts Quotes - page 33

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 imposing appropriate discipline. (Eli Broad)
I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts. View quote
Ellen Barkin
I'd love to teach theatre arts. View quote
Enrico Colantoni
I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school. View quote
Ed O'Neill
I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate. View quote
Ginnifer Goodwin
I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City. View quote
Glenne Headly
The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts. View quote
Gordon Gee
As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities. View quote
Gary Bauer
The arts give us our identity as a community they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community. View quote
Gavin Newsom
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business. View quote
Geoff Mulgan
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind. (George Edward Woodberry)
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. View quote
Henry Giroux
I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question. View quote
Isaiah Mustafa
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach. View quote
Israel Horovitz
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes. View quote
J. C. Chandor
The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. View quote
James Wolcott
That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work. View quote
Jamie Foxx
What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts. View quote
Jane Alexander
My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. View quote
Jason Scott Lee
I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career. View quote
Jason Wu
Regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny. (Jeff Daniels)
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.' View quote
Jeff Greenfield
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas. View quote
Jeremy Denk
Work out really hard and be confident because bodies are beautiful, sensual and natural. I've also trained in Wushu, a form of martial arts - it's very beautiful and flowy, and it's predominantly used in fight scenes in movies, which is how it was introduced to me, and I just love it. View quote
Jessica Clark
My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature. View quote
Jessica Pare