Classical Arts Quotes

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

I did 500 shows of 'Chaula Devi' and 700 shows of 'Anarkali'. I never mixed the filmy style with classical arts and kept my stage performances pure and it was appreciated.

My mother learnt Mohiniyattam as a child, and my father loved singing.

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.

When classical singers or dancers look at cinema with derision, I have half a heart to tell them that they're wrong. They're losing a platform.

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.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

Classical dance forms and music are slowly going away. It is very important to impart these to children.

Russian culture is multifaceted and diverse. So if you want to understand, to feel Russia, then of course you need to read books, Tolstoy and Chekhov and Gogol and others. Listen to music. Tchaikovsky. Watch our classical ballet. But the most important thing is that you need to talk with people.