Arts Quotes

I went to NYU to study liberal arts.

Liz Tuccillo

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Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

David Rakoff

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I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

Jason Statham

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Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

Bo Bennett

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I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east London.

Jonathan Anderson

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

William Butler Yeats

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The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.

Derek Walcott

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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

Theodore Bikel

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Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

Donnie Yen

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The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles at the time. It was around about the time when Jackie was doing 'Drunken Master,' and, like, Snake versus this and that.

Ray Park

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I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

Christian Cooke

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I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

Margaret Qualley

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Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Conrad Hall

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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Laura Vandervoort

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Mixed martial arts is great, and it's here to stay.

Chuck Liddell

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Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.

Issey Miyake

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I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

Hedy Lamarr

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It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.

Anthony McCarten

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How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Francois Rabelais

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I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

Austin Nichols

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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

Aisha Tyler

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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Alfred de Vigny

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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

Eli Broad

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