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

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.
Marcel Carne

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
Lou Reed

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
Charlie Haden

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
Walter Legge

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.
Theodore Bikel

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
Chiwetel Ejiofor

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
Jonathan Dimbleby

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.
Marla Sokoloff

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.
Dorothy Fields

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
Steve Case

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
Sydney Pollack

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
Lou Reed

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.
Gordon Lightfoot

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.
Jason Statham

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
David Bowie

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
J. Carter Brown

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
Stephen Cole Kleene

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Theodore White

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