Arts Quotes - page 8

A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts. (Brandon Lee)
I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe. View quote
Vince Vaughn
Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe. View quote
Dario Fo
The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s. View quote
Alex North
We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts. View quote
James Patterson
Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal. View quote
Jeffrey Zeldman
The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way. View quote
Jim Benton
I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too. View quote
Zendaya
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar. View quote
Kami Garcia
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows. (Les Brown)
Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character. View quote
Bo Bennett
Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts? View quote
Gabrielle Roy
Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer. View quote
Jacques d'Amboise
I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough. View quote
Jaye Davidson
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet. View quote
James Earl Jones
As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person. View quote
Caity Lotz
In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being. View quote
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does. View quote
David Rubenstein
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great. View quote
Amy Sedaris
I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt. (Dodie Smith)
Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right. View quote
Fay Wray
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. View quote
Andrew Greeley
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world. View quote
Ann Macbeth
All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year. View quote
Ann Macbeth