Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
[Repeated line] Ulysses Everett McGill: Damn! We're in a tight spot!
Delmar O'Donnell: Friend? Some of your foldin' money's come unstowed.
Ulysses Everett McGill: I don't get it, Big Dan.
George Nelson: I'm George Nelson, and I'm feeling ten feet tall!
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
I like the course, the history - everything about St. Andrews.
History will treat me right.
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind,...
Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal City overrun by frontiersmen who cared nothing for history and loved only cheap land a...
My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party or with the quest for political influence, ...
Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with resp...
