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Quotes About Youth

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.
~ Tom DeLonge
Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
~ Epicurus
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .
~ Albrecht Durer
I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.
~ Lou Reed
Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.
~ Kal Penn
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.
~ Prince Philip
You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.
~ Tom Jones
I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.
~ Dennis Hopper
A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.
~ Jacques d'Amboise
We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.
~ Tony Danza
Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.
~ Ray Davies
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
~ John Philip Sousa
I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.
~ Renee Watson
Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.
~ Unknown
Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers
~ Daniel Clowes
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
~ Unknown
Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.
~ Unknown
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
~ David Amram
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
~ Jet Li
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.
~ Jet Li
I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.
~ Kehinde Wiley
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
~ O. Henry
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
~ Pauline Kael