Arts Quotes - page 42

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. (Sarah Jessica Parker)
When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it. View quote
Milla Jovovich
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker. View quote
Milla Jovovich
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning in into slumber. The other arts make no such retreat- some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself. This isn't the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America. View quote
Jeff Bridges
Cradle of Letters! Mistress of the World! Soil of the Sun! Italia! I salute thee! How oft the human race have worn thy yoke. The vessels of thine arms, thine arts, thy sky! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Such war, as the arts live and breathe by, is continuous. View quote
William Carlos Williams
The arts have a complex relation to society. The poet isn't a fixed phenomenon, no more is his work. View quote
William Carlos Williams
The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field. View quote
William Carlos Williams
I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world. (Vin Diesel)
I managed to fail Arts I, a course that a moderately intelligent amoeba could have passed without special coaching. View quote
Robert Hughes
I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe. View quote
Dolph Lundgren
I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good. View quote
Dolph Lundgren
I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong. View quote
Dolph Lundgren
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on. View quote
William Morris
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I shall call Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs) a certain number of realities which present themselves to the immediate observer in the form of distinct and specialized institutions:... :*the religious ISA (the system of the different churches), :*the educational ISA (the system of the different public and private ‘schools'), :*the family ISA, :*the legal ISA, :*the political ISA (the political system, including the different parties), :*the trade-union ISA, :*the communications ISA (press, radio and television, etc.), :*the cultural ISA (literature, the arts, sports, etc.). View quote
Louis Althusser
Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough. View quote
Carmen Electra
No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling. (Gertrude Stein)
The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting. View quote
Willem Dafoe
Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves. View quote
Ian McEwan
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. View quote
Ambrose Bierce