One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.
Interpretation
The arts are essential for personal growth and preventing boredom throughout life.
Vincent Price emphasizes the vital role of the arts in maintaining vitality and encouraging growth as individuals mature. He suggests that engaging with the arts keeps minds stimulated and challenges complacency, rather than allowing people to settle into a monotonous existence, thus highlighting the importance of creativity and self-expression in a fulfilling life.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of arts education in schools.
There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.
What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.
We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.
In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
I love singing. I love it, and it doesn't feel like a chore. It's an expression.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have_x000D_ said.
My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.
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