#arts

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts. ↗

— Spike Lee

#arts #creative #creative environment #environment #exposed

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences. ↗

— John Legend

#grown #i #influences #listened #me

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #chaos #common #democracy #fatal

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#elements #extension #nature #neither #nor

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#different #different parts #i #like #lots

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#boils #children #down #education #every

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#book #charts #diagrams #draw #elaborate

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#arts #been #cartoonist #else #extended

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#been #fiction #i #influenced #information