Quotes About Arts Degrees

#1. I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Irvine Welsh

#2. Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

Steven Herrick

#3. It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Ken Livingstone

#4. I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

Julia Child

#5. Some people say you have to work with everything, but there's a time and a place. If it feels like a knot, wait. It will come up again when you and the universe are ready.

Jeff Bridges

#6. The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

Earle Brown

#8. Don't count your blessings, let your blessings count! EnjoyLife!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#9. To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician) ... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries.

Randy Sandke

#10. Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. I'm used to Midge and know that half the time what she says isn't supposed to mean anything. Women aren't so hard to understand once you realize that.

Keith Robertson

#13. All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value?

Louis MacNeice

#14. He had further narrowed his mind by a considerable amount of travel abroad, where he had again always made his way to the small hotels.

Patrick Hamilton

#15. The different arts reach our brains in different ways; they lodge there with differing ease, at different speeds, with different degrees of inevitable simplifications; and for different durations

Milan Kundera