Quotes About Arts

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

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

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying - probably why I ended up in the arts.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.