Arts Degrees Quotes

• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  Irvine Welsh

  Inspiración, Divertido, Graduación

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• An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Degrees, Use

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• Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?

  Pamela Dean

  Art, Years, Giving

  Pamela Dean (2006). “Tam Lin”, p.17, Penguin

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• It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

  Ken Livingstone

  Art, People, Criticism

  "Art attack - mayor and sculptor in war of words over Mandela statue", www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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• The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Art, Kids, College

  Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

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• It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Art, Writing, Degrees

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• Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

  Steven Herrick

  Art, Two, Degrees

  Steven Herrick (2013). “A Place Like This”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.

  Dorothy Allison

  Art, Writing, Responsibility

  "A Conversation with Dorothy Allison". Interview with Renée Olander, www.awpwriter.org. October 2002.

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• I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

  O.R. Melling

  Art, Canada, Degrees

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• I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

  Jeff Dunham

  Art, Communication, Math

  Entrevista de TheCelebrityCafe.com, thecelebritycafe.com. 23 de noviembre de 2011.

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• Si los hombres de la sala pensaran en cómo se sentirían al graduarse con un título de "solterona de las artes" verían lo importante que es esto.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Thinking, Men

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• Mi título de Master of Arts no significa nada en absoluto para estos monos y he llegado a compartir su indiferencia.

  Charles Portis

  Art, Mean, Degrees

  Charles Portis (2013). “Escape Velocity”, p.161, The Overlook Press

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• The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

  Helen Garner

  Art, Jobs, Teaching

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• The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

  Tony Hillerman

  Inspiración, Divertido, Graduación

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• I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees. But actually that's our strength, not our weakness. Our intellectual training qualifies us better than any scientist - social or natural sciences - for us to understand that this is, au fond, not a scientific debate but a cultural and rhetorical one.

  James Delingpole

  Art, Training, Intellectual

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