Quotes About Arts

De tous les arts, seul le cinéma resta jusqu'à la fin du nazisme un refuge possible pour les Noirs.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

I just love the culture of Melbourne.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.

Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.

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.

Learning in and about the arts is essential to intellectual development.

As soon as we have the power to release our minds from the immediate here and now, in a sense we are free. We are free to revisit the past, free to reframe the present, and free to anticipate a whole range of possible futures. Imagination is the foundation of everything that is uniquely and distinctively human. It is the basis of language, the arts, the sciences, systems of philosophy, and the all the vast intricacies of human culture.

We have found that many of our students who were not successful before coming to Boston Arts Academy find their way to engaging with school through the arts, because school isn't just another thing that they hate and are bad at.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

He turned the frame, so I could see his picture in it. "Smoochie poo?" "It's Italian for ass clown. What are you doing in my room?" "Admiring your taste in arts and crafts?" He tilted the frame. "The application of glitter could use some work.

It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned.

People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts.

If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody.

I don't see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.

I see myself in public service in Zimbabwe. I would prefer an advisory role - cabinet secretary, minister of trade or the arts, or something like that. I don't want to be just a writer.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.

I went to Baltimore School of the Arts, which is known for discovering Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith.

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.

I was always in dance and performing arts school. All of my schools were performing arts. I'm the one that, like, turns up the whole party.