Top 1200 Arts Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.
I was a pretty fit and physical kid, and my first interest was in martial arts and kung fu with all the Bruce Lee movies.
the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
I was in jail a couple of times, and I was probably heading back there for a long time. But martial arts saved my life and some of the choices I made with it.
With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."
I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.
I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.
I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.
I'm training in martial arts. It's a whole new world for me and I'm loving it. I do that or hot yoga; I have to do some kind of exercise.
I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.
The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music and arts.
Women have helped shape North Carolina in every discipline and industry, from manufacturing, medicine, and law to business, the arts, and sciences.
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.
That's the great part about arts - someone taking your work and making it something else; it's becomes a true collaboration.
When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.
I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.
You really can't pigeon hole yourself into one particular artistic area any more; the days of one vocation in the arts have long gone.
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.
Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.
In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.
Austerity has led us to a terrible philosophy where we think we've got to cut back on everything that's 'frippery', like the arts.
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
Mixed martial arts has small windows of opportunity and there's always new faces coming through, so it's easy to forget you.
I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.
I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.
I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.
I thought that studying the performing arts and becoming an actress would give me a reason to leave home at a younger age.
I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.
I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.
Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.
Having come from a working-class family in the rural South, the fashion industry opened my eyes to culture, arts, and the world.
Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'
I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all.
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.
I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.
I started very young... I learned my martial arts first in the street. There were always fights. That's the culture in Brazil.
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.
A lot of people think martial arts are just fighting, but it's character-building, too, and I want to give back.
Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
The people of U.P. are very simple and grounded. They take pleasure in admiring arts and cinema. This is why it is emerging as a big market for filmmakers.
I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
'Ebony's Power 100 list highlights African-Americans who exemplify brilliance in the fields of entertainment, arts, business and others.
I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together.
It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
I'm always involved with training and the martial arts. It's not like I go to a desk job somewhere and then throw on the gloves.
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
