Arts Quotes

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

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?

When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

In the martial arts, the guys respect the women fighters.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

Ki is within us. There is Ki everywhere, either we know how to use it or we don't.

I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

Ive been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 years old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.

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. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

I've always been a huge fan of martial arts and comedy, so Rush Hour was the perfect combination for me.

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

I started doing martial arts when I was a kid. I don't often get that kind of role, although I get to do it periodically, which is a lot of fun for me.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

I've always been huge into martial arts.