Vera Cruz: writing on the wall: Art keeps you free.
Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'
I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
Harry Block: I'm a guy who can't function well in life but can in art.
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.
I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.
I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'
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.
The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.
I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart.
The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.
All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it.
I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.
Giving is the art of creating fortunes. Great fortune awaits you when you give out today
