Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have people interested in fiber arts, quilting, sculpture -- any of the visual arts in quite a variety of media.

Scott Jones

We haven't tried a big musical like this one before, so it's been really fun. There are a lot of talented kids involved in the performing arts program, and this play lets us showcase their abilities.

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.

Christian Cooke

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school in Yorkshire. I've probably romanticised it in my head, but I seem to remember that in the space of an hour's drama workshop, I was transformed. I went in really shy, and I came out full of confidence.

We have a unique and very exciting opportunity to positively change the character of downtown Aspen. The centerpiece of our proposal, the Aspen Arts Center, is an idea that has been discussed for years but now has the opportunity to become a reality, to the entire community's benefit.

I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

Victor Webster

I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

We are dependent on the good will of donors. And considering the terrible state of our city, I'm just really worried that the arts will suffer. And without the arts, what makes us human?

We are delighted to have Matthew on board. We believe that he brings a great deal of energy and enthusiasm for the arts to this position, and we're looking forward to creating wonderful new programs to support the arts in our community.

We were making significant progress to realize the goals set some 20 years ago for an arts center that promoted the region's cultural groups and served a diverse community.

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.

Our booths vary from arts and crafts booths, to homemade purses, honey, knitted items, different food vendors, roasted peanuts, funnel cakes, fried twinkies, and much, much more.

There has always been a strong emphasis on the creative arts in this community.

Ben Shapiro

America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.

Ray Park

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.

A performing arts center will not just benefit the Macomb area. A facility like this will be an asset to the entire region.

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.

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.

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

Durham School of the Arts played very well. They have a very well coached team that plays with a lot of heart. We didn't play with much emotion in singles, but all three doubles teams played well under pressure.

Jonathan Tucker

Even a Ph.D. microbiologist doesn't know the dark arts of putting microbes into weapons.

John Bradley

There's practically not one aspect of the arts that's not included in this program. Narrative, poetry, dance, sculpture - there's something for everybody. Opera works really well for integrating the arts.

There's a good buzz. It's really cool because this is not really a sports-oriented school, being liberal arts and everything. But everybody is talking about it.

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.