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

topic: Graduation, Art, Writing, Social Science, Arts Degrees

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

- J. G. Ballard

topic: Art, Degrees, Use, Diploma, Origami

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

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

topic: Art, Years, Giving, Arts Degrees

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

topic: Art, People, Criticism, Arts Degrees

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

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

topic: Art, Kids, College, Principled, Arts Degrees

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

topic: Art, Writing, Degrees, Bachelor Of Arts, Arts Degrees

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

- Steven Herrick

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

topic: Art, Two, Degrees, Arts Degrees

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

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

topic: Art, Writing, Responsibility, Arts Degrees

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

topic: Art, Canada, Degrees, Liberal Arts, Arts Degrees

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

source: TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

topic: Art, Communication, Math, Liberal Arts, Bachelor Of Arts

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Art, Thinking, Men, Spinsters, Arts Degrees

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

- Charles Portis

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

topic: Art, Mean, Degrees, Arts Degrees

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

- Helen Garner

topic: Art, Jobs, Teaching, Arts Degrees

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

topic: Graduation, Art, Winning, Back To College, Essays

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

topic: Art, Training, Intellectual, Sceptic, Arts Degrees