Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
If you're not educated to enjoy the arts, if you're not taken to a concert, or you don't hear something beautiful, you don't know what you're missing.
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts I got sidetracked into clubs and started doing comedy.
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.
It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.
I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.
I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.
When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.
So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.
As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.
The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them.
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.
There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
