The Arts Quotes

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.

Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very careful when doing something like that.

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

I think Mixed Martial Arts is going to be a huge thing coming up in pro wrestling, and I like to think of myself as one of the first guys to try and implement that into my style.

The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.

I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.

Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

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

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.

As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.