Quotes About Arts

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

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.

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

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.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.