I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
The arts were like, there's no opponent. It's just yourself. I'm not saying they don't make the arts a competition with awards and all that, but that's outside the work itself.
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seemed like every movie had someone doing martial arts in it, so I would go around punching and kicking trees.
I'd love to teach theatre arts.
It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.
I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.
I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying - probably why I ended up in the arts.
I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.
As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it's been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
I honestly always thought my Master's in Fine Arts would get me further in the acting world than knowing how to work an espresso machine!
O, had I but followed the arts!
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.
I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.
I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.
Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.
