Arts Quotes - page 39

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 is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing. (Thomas Ian Griffith)
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 was everything mixed together. View quote
Thomas McDonell
I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars. View quote
Victor Webster
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.' View quote
William Sanderson
Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight. View quote
William Zabka
My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt - my kicks, and my stretches, and my punches and all that. View quote
William Zabka
1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion. View quote
Wong Kar-wai
It was my dream! I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show? View quote
Wong Kar-wai
I'm a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs. View quote
Wong Kar-wai
I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. View quote
Walter Legge
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. (Walter Legge)
Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema. View quote
Wesley Morris
My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do. View quote
Will Yun Lee
More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace. View quote
Yayoi Kusama
From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments. View quote
Zhang Ziyi
I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part. View quote
Zhu Zhu
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. View quote
M. C. Richards
We have a lot of heroes. We have Asian heroes, we have Asian American heroes, men, women, of all ages, and not all of them do martial arts. But that doesn't mean that they don't have their own arcs, their own stories, their own subtleties and nuances. And I think that's what's important. View quote
Simu Liu
I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness. View quote
Nazanin Boniadi
Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for. View quote
Andy Murray
I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine. (José Martí)
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. View quote
Germaine Greer
Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art. View quote
Chael Sonnen
In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. View quote
Daniel Webster
The opposition between structure and sonority in music is almost as misleading as that between line and color in the visual arts. Baudelaire insisted, correctly, that Delacroix was one of the three greatest draftsmen of the century, and emphasized his mastery of line. In the same way, a study of Chopin demonstrates the intimate relation between line and color in music. View quote
Charles Rosen