Arts Quotes
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau
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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul
Ernest Dimnet
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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man
Bernard Berenson
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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man
Bernard Berenson
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Museums are the cemeteries of the arts
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Tom Wolfe
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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
Ambrose Bierce
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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
Henry Miller
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Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God`s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
Freeman Dyson
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[on Ying xiong (2002)] Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. But on this film, we talked about a totally dif...
Jet Li
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I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.
James Spader
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Because of the influence of Chinese martial arts films, Hollywood movies are changing. The actions in the films are more beautiful, more rhythmic, and use some enhanced special effects. I think it`s a great thing.
Yimou Zhang
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I thought martial arts were my great strength, but when I actually got involved in show-business, I realized I wasn`t the only one who could do these things. And compared to a lot of others, I wasn`t really that good. So I became a children`s TV program h...
Stephen Chow
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On the purchase of his neighborhood cinema by a radical evangelical church planning `to redeem the arts through Christian discipleship`: It`s offensive - the arts don`t require redemption. The arts exist within a morally complicated zone, unlike an evange...
Tom Hollander
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On the purchase of his neighborhood cinema by a radical evangelical church planning `to redeem the arts through Christian discipleship`: It`s offensive - the arts don`t require redemption. The arts exist within a morally complicated zone, unlike an evange...
Tom Hollander
Keywords: an :: arts :: by :: christian :: church :: cinema :: complicated :: discipleship :: don :: evangelical :: exist :: his :: it :: morally :: neighborhood :: of :: offensive :: on :: planning :: purchase :: radical :: redeem :: redemption :: require :: the :: through :: to :: unlike :: within :: zoneSource: imdb.com
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On the purchase of his neighborhood cinema by a radical evangelical church planning `to redeem the arts through Christian discipleship`: It`s offensive - the arts don`t require redemption. The arts exist within a morally complicated zone, unlike an evange...
Tom Hollander
Keywords: an :: arts :: by :: christian :: church :: cinema :: complicated :: discipleship :: don :: evangelical :: exist :: his :: it :: morally :: neighborhood :: of :: offensive :: on :: planning :: purchase :: radical :: redeem :: redemption :: require :: the :: through :: to :: unlike :: within :: zoneSource: imdb.com
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it`s all make-believe.
Vince Vaughn
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it`s all make-believe.
Vince Vaughn
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[On the martial arts training for The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003)] "I saw Keanu (Reeves) sitting in a tub of ice. And I`m looking at him like `You`re in that for...` and he`s looking at me like `You`ll know one day.`"
Jada Pinkett Smith
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(About auditioning for Fame and Fortune) "You have to think you`ll be one of the ones who makes it." (From Education Weekly, January 26, 1983--when he was a student of drama at the New York High School for the Performing Arts.)
Ron Eldard
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I always remember responding very emotionally to film. I had a lot of lonely time on my hands because I wasn`t really the best-looking kid in my town and I sort of pined after girls. I had to sort of immerse myself in the arts because girls weren`t partic...
McG
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won`t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years. Huo Yuan Jia (2006) is a conclusion to my life as a martial arts star.
Jet Li
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won`t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years. Huo Yuan Jia (2006) is a conclusion to my life as a martial arts star.
Jet Li
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The reason why I decided to wait two years after the Bond movie, and to work with Ang Lee in a martial arts movie, is because I really believe that this genre deserves more respect and dignity than it`s ever been given. Before, people saw it as a fairy ta...
Michelle Yeoh
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I do not believe the public will want spoken comedy. Motion pictures and the spoken arts are two distinct arts.
Harold Lloyd
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I do not believe the public will want spoken comedy. Motion pictures and the spoken arts are two distinct arts.
Harold Lloyd
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Really, any sense of spirituality, which I do have, really comes from the arts that are sort of my inspiration.
Laura Linney
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[on style] I remember, I was at Cal Arts and I wasn`t a good life-drawer; I struggled with that realistic style of drawing. And one day I was sitting in Farmer`s Market sketching, and it was this weird, mind-blowing experience. I said, `Goddamit, I don`t ...
Tim Burton
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I was at NYU`s Tisch School of the Arts for a year and I loved it. There are a lot of really creative people, there is a constant exchange of an ideas. We talk about what`s been done [in film] and all the rules for filmmaking and then we talk about how to...
Alexis Bledel
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