Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Derek Hough

I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.

John C. Calhoun

Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.

Richard Rogers

'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also introduced me to the arts and encouraged me to embrace the new.

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

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.

Ryan Guzman

I trained in martial arts and wanted to become a UFC fighter. That was my goal. I only really learned how to dance three weeks prior to making 'Step Up Revolution.' Dancing will always be fun, but MMA is something I'll never give up. I will eventually get back in the octagon and be fighting professionally again.

Richard Eyre

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

Steven Pinker

Today there are movements in the arts to reintroduce beauty and narrative and melody and other basic human pleasures. And they are considered radical extremists!

We have a fine arts visual classroom set up specifically for the arts as far as drawing and painting, ... We also have a fine arts music classroom set up for piano and music. Those were two things that, prior to this fall, we really didn't have in place at the college.

Chris Frantz

We've lived here for 20 years, so it's about time, ... Seriously, it's a great honor and it's a good way for us to promote the arts in Fairfield County, and promote the town of Fairfield in particular Without art, we're just another white bread community. These people who are working are mostly volunteers and it's nice that they're doing that instead of just being another person at the soccer field.

We?re willing to meet the needs that we create. What is the nexus between building a new home and creating the need for a performing arts center and a swimming pool?

Poe Ballantine

Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee's, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, 'Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.'

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.

I think more businesses are recognizing the economic value of having the arts as part of town life. It's exploding. It's a very exciting development and a testament to how vibrant the arts community is.

I thought it was a tragedy. Arts programs are so important to intellectual and emotional development.

Benjamin Bratt

I thought I might be a sheet metal worker, ... But I also knew the importance of getting an education. And when I got to college, it derailed any notion I had of being in construction. The arts seemed to stimulate me more.

We get people from different disciplinary bases. It's not unusual to get people from performing arts as their disciplinary base who move on.

Martin Filler

The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is well-integrated into an overall scheme for a group of small museums.

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.

I think if you were seeking a name for the college of arts and sciences ... you really couldn't imagine a better name than the name of Thomas Harriot. There, you have this renaissance man, somebody who wouldn't have recognized the boundary between the arts and the sciences.

I think punting this issue to the Arts Commission is the fairest way of doing this at this point,