Arts Quotes

I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.

I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way.

I'd always done martial arts I was always interested in fighting.

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

I've always been interested in martial arts.

All art is political, all art is a martial one.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Give a poet a pen

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Your technique means nothing if you're not using your talents for the betterment of humanity.

Creativity is the most supreme form of love. When it flows from any heart flooded by truth and light, it can change all those who encounter its seductive vibrations.

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.

It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

The Magician makes the visible, invisible.The Scientist makes the invisible, visible.The Artist stands in between, indivisible.

There is no force in Earth or Heaven above, No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen, Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory

There is no force in Earth or Heaven above, No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen, Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory

In art, music, and writing, if it's not of the heart, it means nothing.

~In motivating people, YOU've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved~

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

When I feel too much and the universe aches inside of me.

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.

Art is the medicine for the soul.

Have intention, sacred will travel.

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

Art fuels the fire inside me.

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!