Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

Bring the arts back, and treat it with respect.

The art industry is a totally different world, and to be appreciated in that different world is what matters to me.

Art matters.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

When art wins, everyone wins.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.