Philip Pullman Quotes

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.

If you're not educated to enjoy the arts, if you're not taken to a concert, or you don't hear something beautiful, you don't know what you're missing.

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

The arts was always a place where I could be present.

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.