Civilization is so HARD on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that KEEP puny BODIES alive to a GREATER average AGE, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

Music must take rank as the highest of the FINE ARTS - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human SPIRIT.

An arts degree is LIKE a DIPLOMA in origami. And about as MUCH USE.

As a father, I always want my son to be PERFECT. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like BRUCE LEE's son, with everybody telling me how GOOD my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

The PHYSICAL DNA has always been PART of our FAMILY. My DAD was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.

Jackie Chan is a very GOOD comedy/martial ARTS star. He does one KIND of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do, and Jet Li does a martial ART that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do.

I had a BIT of a martial ARTS BACKGROUND from when I was a TEENAGER: I did a bit of karate.

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.

I LOVE that PRESIDENT and Mrs. OBAMA are embracing the ARTS. I am so DELIGHTED.

At the SCHOOL of Visual ARTS in New York, you can GET your DEGREE in NET art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

I went to SCHOOL at Radnor HIGH School. And I went to a liberal ARTS COLLEGE in St. LOUIS, Missouri, called Lindenwood College.

Of all the ARTS, MUSIC is REALLY the most ABSTRACT.

Insurrection is an ART, and LIKE all ARTS has its own LAWS.

Boston was a great CITY to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were SURROUNDED by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, DANCE, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

Funding for sports (and the ARTS) are OFTEN the FIRST things facing the chop in difficult TIMES.