811 Arts Quotes for You to Enjoy

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. Ethel Barrymore

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Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments. Evan Osnos

Dark Recite Adjustment Deliver Delivered Over Days Emptiness Bureaucrats Often Arts Chinese Centuries Extent Speeches

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole. F. Sionil Jose

Work Truth Important Nation Books Harsh Those About Only Understand How Just Arts Literature Us Ignore Who Whole

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms. F. Sionil Jose

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art. F. Sionil Jose

Art Simple Painting Way Those Visual Visual Arts Distrust Simple Way Abstraction Particularly Judging Very Artificial Arts Them

As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence. F. Sionil Jose

'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media. Felix Dennis

Love Business Charity People Politicians Everyone Presidents Favourite Magazine More Week Massive America Arts CEOs Companies Even Media

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience. Felix de Weldon

Good Knowledge Experience Tremendous Projects City Fine Fine Arts Could Federal Had Talent Most Devote Well Because Commission Jurisdiction Arts Where Experiences Washington Gratifying

Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts. Fernando Botero

Life Art Good Me My Life Half Luck Spend Everything Good Luck Way Would Fine Fine Arts Students Had Nobody Most Schools Because Been Forgetting Arts Happens Which Ever

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978. Flavor Flav

Degree Got Culinary Arts

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics. Flea

History Science Important Kids Athletics Math Just Arts English Deserve

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams. Francis G. Slay

Dreams Animal Culture People Young Competitor Incubator Gays Immigrants City See Magnet Entrepreneurs Parks New Global Sort Trade Hub Trails Louis St. Louis Arts Place Lovers Plan Figures Companies International International Trade

My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways. Frankie J. Alvarez

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When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures. G-Dragon

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. G. Stanley Hall

Age Protection Despite Our Alive Puny Some Civilization Contagious Greater Germ Disease Diseases Arts Average Bodies Body Hard Keep

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing. Gail Porter

Kickboxing Martial Martial Arts Mainly Mixed Arts

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities. Gary Bauer

Will National Taxpayer Other Programs President Once Promote Degrading End Subsidize Arts Endowment Use Activities Amoral Funds

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. Gavin Newsom

Eyes Safety Opportunity Space Sense Neighborhoods Jobs Vital More Foot Generating New New Jobs Traffic Role Improving Arts Public Public Safety Using Play Street Vacant Bringing

In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry. Gene Luen Yang

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business. Geoff Mulgan

Politics Religion Business Society Entrepreneurship Idea Does Arts Much

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science. Geoffrey Canada

Education Today Science Physical Physical Education Studies Sacrificing Like Schools Cover Math Subjects Arts Children Social English Many Basic

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