The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet. – Melvyn Bragg
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. – Dolph Lundgren
Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive. – Chris Raschka
Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster. – Norm Dicks
I’d love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets. – Idina Menzel
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. – Norm Dicks
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love. – Julian Barnes
I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee. – Melvyn Bragg
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. – Kate DiCamillo
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. – M. Night Shyamalan
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. – Maya Lin
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. – Lee Strasberg
I really like Kickstarter because you don’t have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It’s a type of microfunding directed toward creators. – Lisa Gansky
There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That’s always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts. – Mahershala Ali
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them. – Jacques Audiard
In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts. – Louise Slaughter
I wasn’t always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom. – Janet Evanovich