We’re under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film. – Ann Macbeth
I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do. – Abbi Jacobson
Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that. – Amber Riley
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you’re sparring or drilling techniques, you can’t think of anything else. – Joe Rogan
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. – Catherine Deneuve
After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter. – Allan Gurganus
I don’t paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I’m not a painter. – Annie Parisse
With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett. – Billy Parish
The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes. – Bonnie Raitt
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket. – Carly Rae Jepsen
That’s why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics – all of that. – Andy Serkis
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? – Alfred de Vigny
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I’m not a painter. – Annie Parisse
My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment. – Ajay Mehta
I went to Baltimore School of the Arts, which is known for discovering Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith. – Bresha Webb
You know, it’s such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts. – Cam Gigandet
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. – Carol P. Christ
Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for. – Chuck Norris
What liberals mean by ‘goose-stepping’ or ‘ethnic cleansing’ is generally something along the lines of ‘eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.’ But they can’t say that, or people would realize they’re crazy. – Ann Coulter
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. – Bela Lugosi
All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year. – Ann Macbeth
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. – Caity Lotz
I haven’t had a chance really to do a martial arts role, but I really want to. I want to act like Jackie Chan in a movie. – Brett Dier