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There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens — David J. Skorton

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

The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together! — William Lyon Phelps

I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies. — Thomas Ian Griffith

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't. — Josh Radnor

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students. — Paul McCartney

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself. — Bruce Lee

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper

The arts are not frosting but baking soda. — Michael S. Gazzaniga

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

Hell--or Heaven--is here, now, inside. — Jean Russell

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts. — Tamara Taylor

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. — Pete Seeger

Still, I held my right hand ready to cast a spell in case arts-and-craft hour suddenly ended and they went back to Killing 101. — Devon Monk

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people. — Jackie Chan

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. — Darren Aronofsky

Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning. — Christian Tissier

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities. — Chris Campanioni

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen. — Sundra Oakley

I think the arts are very important for children growing up. — Stephen Schwartz

Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts. — Stella McCartney

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts. — Stephen Graham

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. — Franco Zeffirelli

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts. — Buck Brannaman

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

Alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit. — Elizabeth Inchbald

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms. — Voltaire

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete. — Marty Rubin

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art. — Cesar Vallejo

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. — Francois Rabelais

We'll see what I do after 'Badlands' to show audiences that I have more in my repertoire besides martial arts. — Daniel Wu

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery. — George Gordon Byron

I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument. — Tasha Smith

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world. — Ann Macbeth

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice. — Leon Battista Alberti

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time. — Richard Le Gallienne

The ultimate fighter does not rely on his hands or feet to defeat his opponent, but rather his mind. — M.J. Stoddard

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common. — William Blake

He who loses the arts loses the culture. — Francis Schaeffer

The body is more than the temple of the soul. It's the grounded celebration of its rapture. — S. Kelley Harrell

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement. — Bruce Lee

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there. — Melody Beattie

O, had I but followed the arts! — William Shakespeare

I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not. — Bas Rutten

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. — Thomas F. Wilson

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it — Hannah More

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control. — Michelle Yeoh

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite. — Ron Silver

I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society. — Damian Woetzel

On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self. — Akira Toriyama

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. — George Miller

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something. — Jet Li

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages. — Anderson Silva

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media. — Peter York

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts. — Kevin Spacey

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions. — Derek Bok

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. — Rod Taylor

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace. — Yayoi Kusama

When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for? — Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket. — Jason Ritter

How is it a vegan won't visit the zoo or rodeo, but you'll level a man with martial arts? — DiAnn Mills

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. — Francisco De Goya

My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit. — Georges St-Pierre

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality. — Frederick Lenz

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. — E.A. Bucchianeri

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. — Matthew Arnold

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. — Leo Ornstein

Stomach-sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. This — Jeffrey Eugenides

Journeying is a lifestyle change. — S. Kelley Harrell

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical. — Anna Camp

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ... — Nikki Giovanni

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger. — Mencius

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. — Fannie Farmer

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire. — Philippe Petit

The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. — Susan Neiman

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth — Ray Bradbury

The arts are the hospitals for our souls ... — Suzanne Farrell

I train because it makes every area of my life better, and it makes me better at every area of my life. — Chris Matakas

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are. — Gunnar Nelson

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! — Ansel Adams

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. — Gertrude Stein

Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned. — Florence King

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic. — John Woo

Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. — John Roecker

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old. — Jet Li

No one has the right to beat you. — Ronda Rousey

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. — Walter Legge

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. — Aimee Bender

The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast. — Lara Biyuts

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. — Jet Li

It's great that 'Glee' is making viewers more aware of the arts. People appreciate it. — Mark Salling

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin