Top 1200 Arts Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
When you think that in the '50s there was wrestling and boxing - that was it. There wasn't mixed martial arts at all; there wasn't even karate in the United States.
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
I know there's not a man in the world in any of the striking arts that would just run over me.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
I studied fine arts, and color and composition was always my thing, but I've never been too wild with my fashion.
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.
Together, we can nurture the talent of the future and bring the empowering force of music and the arts to a new generation.
That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.
WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
I teach mixed martial arts and I am having a gala time running a school dedicated to it.
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world
Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.
I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.
Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.
My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.
I've always been a huge fan of martial arts and comedy, so Rush Hour was the perfect combination for me.
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.
I come from a family rooted in the arts, so I think I naturally gravitated towards performing from an early age.
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
With Carlson Gracie, who saw something in me, I started learning and loved mixing together the martial arts.
I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
Wrestling and kickboxing, like martial arts, combine a handful of skills. They're really an art form.
The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.
When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
I enjoy football, cricket and I have been watching mixed martial arts for the last five years.
I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.
Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.
