Arts Quotes
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I have fought all over the world, and I am excited to be in 'EA Sports MMA' because this game is going to show the global appeal of mixed martial arts.
Fedor Emelianenko
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Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.
Bill Kaulitz
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
Bela Lugosi
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I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.
Walker Evans
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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Plato
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I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
Len Wein
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The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.
John Calvin
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It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
Steve Jobs
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Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.
Apuleius
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Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.
Abraham Lincoln
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake
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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Lukas Foss
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
Al Pacino
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From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.
James G. Frazer
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My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and to be so unapologetic and true, and have added so much to art and culture in the world. Some of the greatest inspirations in my life have been black Americans. And I just wanted to say thank you. They've been a huge inspiration, to myself and this country.
Hasan Minhaj
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You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.
Martin Luther
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
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Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.
Isaac Newton
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ... to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality the origin as well as the progress and improvement of civil society is founded in mechanical and chemical inventions.
Humphry Davy
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
Scilla Elworthy
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I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.
Eugene McCarthy
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The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts.
Albert C. Barnes
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If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.
Christine de Pizan
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All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions.
John Calvin