I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They’re not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects. – Mark Grotjahn
I’m going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I’m interested in that didn’t come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner. – Damian Woetzel
The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it. – Melvyn Bragg
The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts. – Nadia Ali
Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. – David Mamet
Some of the martial arts films, the motivation is about martial arts. That’s where it’s coming from. It is a visual, commercial film, to showcase the next stunt, the biggest thing. And character development becomes a side thing. – Michelle Yeoh
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. – Eugenio Montale
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence. – Noah Feldman
I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well. – Cecily Strong
We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco’s cultural vitality. – Gavin Newsom
I was an ‘Ironman’ fan. It was in the ’70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying – probably why I ended up in the arts. – Clark Gregg
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. – Francis I
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. – Edward Levi
We’ll see what I do after ‘Badlands’ to show audiences that I have more in my repertoire besides martial arts. – Daniel Wu
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. – Donnie Yen
What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts. – Dean Bakopoulos
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants. – Mohsin Hamid
How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That’s the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn’t do anything else. – Nicolas Cage
Martial arts is something you can learn or pick up and think you could do really well. – Michelle Yeoh
As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn’t have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally. – David Call