Traditional Arts Quotes

The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn't start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was particularly bad during the Cultural Revolution, the destruction of traditional Chinese culture.

I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.

In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism.

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.

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

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

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.

The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.

I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

Japanese culture? I kind of love everything about it. I love the food. Everyone's really nice. There's just a lot about Japan that's really cool.

I like good movies, and I love theater, and things that I grew up loving, I still love.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dancers and listen to its folk songs—don't pay any attention to its politicians.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

I've always heard the same doomsday concerns and yet, every day, there are people going to a classical concert for the first time - whether it's on a date or being dragged there by their grandmother.

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.

Parajanov's love for the folk culture is quite infectious. The way that he loves everything on screen, I relate.

There are many different artforms that are just being lost because the whole digital revolution has homogenized everything, turned it all into Walmart.

I feel that not only have I been out there promoting my style of karate, but just promoting the traditional martial arts, and it makes me very happy.

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.