I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
People don't come to New York to ski. They cone for the arts.
the cultivation and encouragement of the mechanic and of the elegant arts, the advancement of literature, and the progress of the sciences, ornamental and profound.
The President urged Congress to promote:
I started out doing musicals.
Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop.
When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.
The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.
I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.
I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.
I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.
At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.
Music and acting kind of all goes together.
When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?
When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.
Another part of my background was that I was in film school.
I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.
I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.
As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.
Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.
Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
