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'Ashes of Time' was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it's not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity.

Wong Kar-wai

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.

Dolph Lundgren

'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff, very little in the way of actually lifting heavy weights, and a very, very low calorie diet.

Henry Cavill

When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.

Nelsan Ellis

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

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

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Ezra Pound

She never looked nice.She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Eleanor Park - Rainbow Rowell.

Cricket is an art. Like all arts it has a technical foundation. To enjoy it does not require technical knowledge, but analysis that is not technically based is mere impressionism.

C.L.R. James

For me, meaning of design is to give soul to objects by Art. Art sometimes need to be in every part of daily life, not only in the galleries and museums.

Baris Gencel

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.

Banksy

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Julia Cameron

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

Jet Li

The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles at the time. It was around about the time when Jackie was doing 'Drunken Master,' and, like, Snake versus this and that.

Ray Park

Art: [after Clark has flipped out] You're goofy. Clark: [Still flipped out] Don't piss me off, Art.

Christmas Vacation

Ulysses Everett McGill: I detect, like me, you're endowed with the gift of gab.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Homer Stokes: These boys is not white! These boys is not white! Hell, they ain't even old timey!

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

[about to be hung] Ulysses Everett McGill: It ain't the law! Sheriff Cooley: The law? The law is a human institution.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Big Dan Teague: So long boys. See you in the funny papers.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Pete: Since we been followin' your lead, we ain't got nothing but trouble.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?