Arts Quotes - page 44

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs. (George Santayana)
Why do we think that arts are leisure? Why isn't it arts and science or arts and the most important thing in your life? View quote
Julie Taymor
I wanted to burn down the 'École de Beaux Arts' with my cobalts and vermilions and I wanted to express my feelings with my brushes without troubling what painting was like before me... Life and me, me and life. View quote
Maurice de Vlaminck
Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable. View quote
Kevin Spacey
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience. View quote
William Safire
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. View quote
Camille Paglia
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. View quote
Camille Paglia
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it. View quote
Hannah More
While the others had got married and moved out to suburbia, I had stayed in London and got into the arts scene through friends like Robert Fraser and Barry Miles and papers like The International Times. View quote
Paul McCartney
the arts are life accelerated and concentrated. View quote
Edith Sitwell
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage. (Will Self)
The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be. View quote
Walter Ulbricht
I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm trying to see my show as the Sunday Times. You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review...even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships. View quote
Joy Behar
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to be more likely to produce philosophers, people in the arts, unusually brilliant scientists. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may! View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. View quote
David Mamet
The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both. View quote
Joe Rogan
I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts. View quote
Joe Rogan
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else. View quote
Joe Rogan
I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC. View quote
Joe Rogan
The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort. (Jack White)
When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for? View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives. View quote
Anna Deavere Smith