Importance Of The Arts Quotes

#1. The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

Karen Kain

#2. I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

Benjamin Walker

#3. If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

Jock Sturges

#4. At an early age through the arts, I was fortunate to find an outlet to learn & apply, express myself, create, develop a positive image of myself, and a feel of importance, and significance to the world.

Mya

#5. Each is unique and incomparable - you are just yourself; nobody has ever been like you and nobody will ever be like you. And you need not be like anybody else, either.

Osho

#6. I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

Blake Lewis

#7. For we have been there in the books and out of the books - and where we go, if we are any good, there you can go as we have been. A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts,

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse, even with the certainty of a UK referendum following the negotiation, it is clear that there was no appetite amongst European leaders for anything more than a few minor concessions.

Andrea Leadsom

#9. You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. For me, dance is a nutrient, you know, it's something that I need, it's something like, you know, the air we breath, the food we eat. These are things that we need for survival. For me, dance is a nutrient. It's my nourishment.

Gregg Burge

#11. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?

Terry Pratchett

#12. We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.

Nancy Gibbs

#13. I told her you were probably here'. 'Thanks,' Tony said. 'Did I mention she thinks her brother's murder is my fault?

Val McDermid

#14. I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.

Chris Matakas

#15. There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life,

Barbara Kruger

#17. Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.

Ken Danby

#18. In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

Liya Kebede

#19. My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.

Akhil Sharma

#20. Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion He asked me out, therefore he pays is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.

Warren Farrell

#21. Then lifted the book to my nose and breathed the ink in from its pages. The scent of possibilities.

Kate Morton

#22. How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.

Kermit The Frog

#23. The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

Thomas Young