Arts Quotes

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.
Anthony Hopkins

Important, Around, Goes

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
Catherine Deneuve

Painting, Maybe, Fine

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Andre Breton

Nature, Wise, Writing

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
Arthur Erickson

Insecurity, America, Brave

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.
Camille Paglia

Art, Career, Between

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Good, Art, Mind

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell

Alone, Moment, Desire

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon

Learning, Book, Thinking

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Vivienne Westwood

Small, Support, Interested

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Theodore Bikel

Put, Pride, Matter

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.
Hugh Hopper

Creative, Rest, Maybe

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Francois Rabelais

Soon, Idleness, Perish

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Francois Rabelais

Peace, War, Means

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
Jet Li

Movies, Amazing, Famous

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
Ang Lee

Strong, Character, Book

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
Kate DiCamillo

Training, Means, Reading

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Leon Trotsky

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.
Joni Mitchell

Fine, Continue, Further

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.
Jonathan Kozol

Music, Time, Children

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
Norah Jones

Music, School, Jazz

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
Lucy Powell

Sports, Difficult, Often

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

Friends, Practice, Champions

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster

Human, Follow, Begins

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra Pound

Humanity, Rich, Tree

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.
Jonathan Sacks

Health, Young, Community

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.
Dennis Prager

Religion, Done, America

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.
Spike Lee

Age, Young, Creative

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.
Hugh Laurie

Actually, Cinematic, Prized

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.
James Wolcott

School, Country, While

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.
Robert Mondavi

Life, Food, Wine

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