Quotes About Value Of The Arts

#1. I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

Herb Alpert

#2. She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

Anne Tyler

#3. A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

Robert Fisk

#4. Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

Mathieu Amalric

#5. Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

Duane Michals

#6. You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense

Chris Rock

#7. Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

Campbell McGrath

#8. The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are.

Harry Chapin

#9. 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

#10. If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing.

Howard Warren Buffett

#11. Pierre held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful bosom as it rose and fell.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.

Douglas Coupland

#13. Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

George Steiner

#14. The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Gavin Newsom

#15. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Albert Einstein

#16. If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Sara Sheridan

#17. When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.

Maika Monroe

#18. As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Willie Nelson

#19. Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.

Bruce Lee

#20. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

Milan Kundera

#21. There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

Juan Williams

#22. The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

Ernest Hemingway,

#23. Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

Brad Henry

#24. Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

Northrop Frye

#25. And then, because I'm now the one thinking too much, and because she is different from all other girls and because I really, really don't want to screw this up, I concentrate on kissing her on the banks of the Blue Hole, in the sunshine, and I let that be enough.

Jennifer Niven

#26. The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Amit Kalantri

#27. The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

Denis Dutton