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Arts Quotes

I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing and bear-baiting. O! had I but followed the arts!

– William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 3. Feeling discouraged in his hope of wooing Lady Olivia, Sir Andrew Aguecheek announces that he he going to leave Illyria. Sir Toby Belch asks why, saying the French word Pourquoi. Sir Andrew doesn’t understand the word, and says he wishes he had spent more time studying the arts.

I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

– Hedy Lamarr

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

– Herbert Spencer

I don’t watch TV. Only while I’m doing it do I see it, really. So I don’t know anything. I only know old reggae artists. So that’s my thing. Old reggae artists and martial arts.

– Greg Cipes

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

– Henry Miller

In the U.S., Wikia has content sponsorships with top brands, including Blizzard Activision, Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, ABC Television and others.

– Gil Penchina

What I’m very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

– Hans Haacke

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

– Henry Rollins

I don’t think they should regulate the music field. I don’t see how they can regulate the arts.

– Gordon Lightfoot

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

– Herb Ritts

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn’t, but it should be.

– Hugh Laurie

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

– Helen Garner

I’d trained at the University of Washington and had a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.

– Gregg Henry

I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

– Jet Li

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

– Joseph Stiglitz

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

– Harry Mathews

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

– James Heckman

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

– Jason Alexander

A certain administration which I won’t call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that’s the birth of hip-hop.

– Isaac Hayes

I’ve been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

– Joe Rogan

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

– J. G. Ballard

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

– John Philip Sousa

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

– Jonathan Dimbleby

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

– Joel Edgerton

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

– H. L. Mencken

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.

– Jason Statham

The arts have always been in and around my life.

– Grace Gummer

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven’t gotten there yet.

– James Earl Jones

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

– Aberjhani

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

– Charles Baudelaire

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