Top 1200 Fine Arts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It's my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I am.

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

My brain is fine.

You've got to be fine with who you are.

All through college, I did a lot of break-dancing and all kinds of different martial arts.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

Marxists make it an objective to control education, that's how they control minds, countries, populations. We conservatives don't like to control anybody, we're not even activists. We just leave people alone, figure if everybody has the same morality and the same set of values and is focusing on the same basic human things using God-given human freedom, that things are gonna work out fine. That's what America has demonstrated is true, that's being protested this very day. It's not fine; America's unjust, unfair, and all these things. That's the fight we're in the middle of.

I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.

Imperfection is fine.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

You will make the boy Thief king?" he [Nahuseresh] said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine revenge for the loss of a hand," said the Mede, close to snarling. "I will have my sovereignty," said Attolia thinly. "Oh, yes, a fine one-handed figurehead he will make," spat Nahuseresh. Then he remembered Attolia's flattery earlier that morning. "Or do I insult your lover?" he asked. "Not a lover," said Attolia. "Merely my choice for king.

My health is fine.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet.

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations.

My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

When I was a kid, there were probably 100 schools in the Bay Area that just did martial arts.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It's affected every aspect of my life.

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

I can be fine and not smile.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.

Performing is fine.

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

My eyes are fine.

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

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.

Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

I'm fine with the life I have.