Arts Quotes - page 41

It is surprising what improper and indecent contentions these popular elections occasioned. I have oftener than once known half-a-dozen candidates all trying for a vacant parish, and preaching alternately, to give their electors an opportunity of determining what they liked best. Voice and action, as is remarked in a very humorous pamphlet respecting London lectureships, almost constantly carried it. ... Preachers and ministers so elected, continuing still in some degree dependent on the people, continued also chiefly to cultivate those arts by which their favour had first been gained. Their sermons were light, flippant, and ordinary; but their manner of preaching was pleasing and popular. (Jonathan Boucher)
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost. View quote
Julien Benda
The Cubists want to cover Dada with snow; that may surprise you, but it is so, they want to empty the snow from their pipe to bury DaDa. Are you sure? Positively sure, the facts are revealed by grotesque mouths. They think that Dada can prevent them from practicing this odious trade: Selling art expensively. Art costs more than sausages, more than women, more than everything. Art is visible like God (see Saint-Sulpice). Art is a pharmaceutical product for imbeciles. The table turns thanks to spirit; the paintings and other works of arts are like strong-box tables, the spirit is inside and becomes more and more inspired according to the auction prices. Farce, farce, farce, farce, farce, my dear friends. View quote
Francis Picabia
I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts, that is my special key. I can use my unique martial arts in the film. But after a few years, I really want to do something different... like using martial arts to talk about peace. View quote
Jet Li
I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies. View quote
Jet Li
I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old. View quote
Jet Li
I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key. View quote
Jet Li
Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. View quote
Jet Li
Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope. View quote
Jet Li
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. View quote
Jet Li
I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts. (Jet Li)
I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula. View quote
Jet Li
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China. View quote
Jet Li
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years. View quote
Jet Li
We're free and easy. We're not very authoritative. We have no doctrine, no dogma. It is a community of mostly people who are interested in the arts, literature, photography, music. View quote
Irving Fiske
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . . View quote
Shana Alexander
The arts need funding. View quote
Julie Andrews
The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs. View quote
Julie Andrews
Teachers, not students, are the ones who are failing. As Albert Einstein said that "all religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree,” the detachment of philosophy – the forefather of all knowledge and academic disciplines – from mathematics, sciences, and technology is the fundamental reason for failure in modern-day K-12 and higher education. View quote
Newton Lee
Even a large majority of beautiful music, great literature, and wonderful work of arts depicts human suffering, injustice, fears, and unfulfilled desires. View quote
Newton Lee
I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club. (Gore Vidal)
For love she wist was weak without those arts, And slow; for jealousy is Cupid's food; For the swift steed runs not so fast alone, As when some strain, some strive him to outgone. View quote
Torquato Tasso
I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready. View quote
Jason Statham
I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world. View quote
Jason Statham
Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. View quote
Apuleius