My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
Mark Mothersbaugh

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
Leon Jouhaux

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
Jillian Bach

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
John Philip Sousa

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
Julien Benda

O, had I but followed the arts!
William Shakespeare

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

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
Leo Ornstein

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

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Alfred de Vigny

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
Brad Henry

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
Jean Tinguely

One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Plato

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
Antoine Lavoisier

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts

Painting and writing are solitary arts.
Conrad Hall

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.
Carol Kane