Quotes About Arts

2. They were endowed abundantly with the natural gifts of intellect and foresight, and with the faculties of the arts, sciences and culture. " 'Hearing and seeing' refer to the experimental faculties. And the word 'heart' in Arabic includes intellect, or the rational faculties as well as the instruments of feeling and emotion, the aesthetic faculties."144

I had no idea what role these popular arts of storytelling and singing would play in my future; I just enjoyed them without thinking about it.

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.

A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture of all these things and yet based on literature.

The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.

When the National Theatre was built, it was a public building. If you wander round that building now, there are bits hived off for people who pay more money. That's happening across the arts.

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Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London's leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National's role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.

When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.

With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett.

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

Sin is the quintessence of evil; it has made all the evils that there are & is itself worse than all evils it has made. It is so evil that it is impossible to make it good or lovely by all the arts that can be used.

the importance of preserving the integrity of a non-scientific form of understanding, the kind of understanding characteristic of the arts and the kind of understanding that Goethe, Spengler and Wittgenstein sought to protect from the encroachment of science and scientism.

I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first record player when I was six years old as well as a Karen Carpenter record.

I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

It's powerful when you're able to celebrate your culture, but also bring the arts and music to the masses.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

My own view is that the arts are neither superior nor inferior to anything else that goes on in schools.

I think about Laura Bush every once in awhile. She is a great supporter of the arts. I did a show at the Eisenhower Theater, and she would make a point of coming backstage. The relationship between Laura and George Bush was always that way where you felt like he was at his best behavior when he was in her company.

It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.

Connecticut's arts community provides an incredible amount of good for our state and supports thousands of jobs.