Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. C. Watts

We were looking at the space when we were designing the whole suite of galleries, and we noticed that the ceiling was so tremendously high that we could easily make two floors of it. So what we did -- instead of the original idea of mixing decorative arts and paintings from the 12th century onward -- we have more or less separated the decorative arts from the paintings.

Jake Epstein

When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.

We're both previous theater majors, so we're very supportive of the arts here.

Dana Gioia

The arts need social recognition. The money will come if people think it's important.

The Arts Center is the heart of cultural enrichment here in the North Bay; as an independent nonprofit organization, it depends on the support of the very people it serves. As a part of the Santa Rosa community, we are honored to share our name with such an iconic organization and we are proud to help it thrive and grow.

The arts can speak about critical issues of our time.

The arts are critical to ground zero. There was a process. Maybe the process needs to be looked at, but it certainly shouldn't be abandoned.

William Johnson

The arts and music in schools is very important these days when so much on television has nothing to do with the fine arts. These kind of programs really broaden the horizon of our students and is better than having them just sitting in front of the TV.

Jim Kelly

The arts and heritage community is very supportive of this bill.

The Arts and Crafts Movement was about design for living. It was design for ordinary people. That was a passion that was represented no matter what country Arts and Crafts evolved in.

The expert for Arts & Sciences will be from an arts and sciences background. So rather than one massive report, it will be a series of papers they will be developing for me.

What it does is unite the arts groups. A lot of times there are different groups in Gilroy and they'll have a purpose individually, but this makes it more of a collective group where you're able to share a vision and purpose.

What I need, and what I want in the long run, is for Albany to establish a city arts building.

Henry Cavill

'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff, very little in the way of actually lifting heavy weights, and a very, very low calorie diet.

George Lois

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

Tom Brokaw

I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

Brian Moynihan

The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

I. King Jordan

I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

Uzo Aduba

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

David Taylor

The standard practice of a not-for-profit operation is that service fees are not refunded, but the face value of a ticket is, ... Funding for the arts has gone down, as everyone knows, and so it's used as a contribution, for lack of a better term.

People under 60, raised on television, they remember by what they see. The churches that are using a great deal of the arts in their worship and drama and visual film are doing it in part because they realize film and television are really the language of today.

Daniel Rodriguez

People pay $100 to $150 to see me in the big performing arts theaters. This is a home thing, me in my back yard.

Dana White

The momentum continues to build which is really exciting for us. We were confident people would respond to the sport of mixed martial arts once they got to know the professional athletes who participate in it. Stay tuned, it's going to be a great season.

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Dent Middle School is the only middle school in Richland School District Two with an arts and media program such as this one.

Arend Arts Center is paid for ? but now we have to operate it.

CSF 150 is designed for students without a previous background in computer science and uses examples from the arts and sciences to motivate students.

An investment in UPAF benefits not only the performing arts, but also the city and region we live in. Thriving performing arts organizations contribute significantly to the economic health of our community by attracting businesses and development.

Electronic Arts has gone to great lengths to capture the unique features of college baseball,

Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas

J. Maarten Troost

There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

James Allen

As we develop a regional economic-development strategy for Erie and Niagara counties, we have identified tourism as one of our growth clusters. The arts and culture industry needs to be viewed as an economic-development sector.