Arts Quotes - page 7

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God. (Leonardo da Vinci)
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. View quote
Mike Tyson
It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion. View quote
Murasaki Shikibu
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves... View quote
Peter Drucker
To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in the realm of ideas, of the arts, and of science can help refashion these false images. And by seeing more clearly we may act more wisely. View quote
Chester Bowles
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena. View quote
Isaac Newton
The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind. View quote
Adam Smith
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there. View quote
Taisen Deshimaru
The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose...and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization. (John F. Kennedy)
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love. View quote
Marsilio Ficino
Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society. View quote
Robert Carlyle
I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin. View quote
Sam Rockwell
I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is! View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical. View quote
Scott Turow
As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger. View quote
Steven Seagal
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. View quote
William Boyd
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead. View quote
Warren Adler
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. (Franco Zeffirelli)
So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries. View quote
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk. View quote
Barry Eisler
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. View quote
Bela Lugosi
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career. View quote
Bryan Cranston