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“The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.”

Art Play Eye Jobs Opportunity Space Roles Feet Streets Safety Neighborhood Traffic Improving New Job Vacant Public Safety

Author:Gavin Newsom

“The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.”

Art Culture

Author:Steve Turner

Source: Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

“The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.”

World Way Art Perspective Lessons Celebrate Interpretation Multiple Multiple Perspectives

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.”

Long Art Stills Values Community Comedy Importance Artistic Lasting Cynicism Long Lasting

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“The Arts Council of England, in a 1998 report on 11 countries, found that Germany spent $85 per capita on the arts. The United States spent a shocking $6. And Canada, in its stubborn balance, spent $46... It's the Canadian way to be halfway between the Old and New worlds.”

World Way Art Country States Found United United States Balance England Germany Reports Canada Museums New World Stubborn Shocking Council Halfway Old And New

Author:Michael Audain

“The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.”

Mind Art Important Ideas Economy Habit Skills Workers Habits Of Mind

Author:Alan Greenspan

“The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.”

Art Matter Use Reality Government Names Civilization Shapes Destroyed Ruins Substance Neglect Creeds Rough Times Interruptions

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“The arts don't exist in isolation.”

Art Isolation

Author:David Byrne

Source: How Music Works

“The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.”

Art Feelings Source Capable Experience Variety Range

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.”

Art Process Possibility Expression Photography Department

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.”

Art Ideas Moments Alive Currents Senses Excitement Addresses Aesthetic Resonating

Author:Ken Robinson

“The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?”

Should Art Modernism Ransom

Author:John Crowe Ransom

“The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.”

People Giving Art Opportunity Community Vision Economic Identity Draws Our Community

Author:Gavin Newsom

“The arts have always been in and around my life.”

Art

Author:Grace Gummer

“The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.”

People Way Wells Kind Art Different Culture Creativity Serious Function Ambassadors Different Cultures

Author:Herbie Hancock

“The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.”

“The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.”

People Kind Art Artist Support Minorities Nursery

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.”

Feels Children Art Said Helping Jobs Capacity Poetic Works Of Art Invited

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.”

Humans Wells Art Home Found Challenges Theatre Halls Concerts Location Gallery Intercourse

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.”

Knows Art Facts Form Language Numbers Limits Vivid Literal Cognition

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.”

Art Artist Study Occasions Slips

Author:George Santayana

Source: The Sense of Beauty

“The arts not only imbue our sense of sight, balance, movement, touch and hearing, they also lift our logical minds - the traditional focus of modern education - into the reaches of possibility, invention and genius.”

Mind Art Focus Modern Movement Possibility Genius Balance Sight Hearing Invention Traditional Lifts Logical Modern Education

Author:Eugene Schwartz

“The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.”

Giving Art Feelings Reality Emotion Art Is Corruption Neglect Subjective Art Education

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.”

World Years Humans Heart Art Two Past Sacrifice Battle Thousand Skins Weight Victim Heavy Warrior Fifty Two Years Mexico Jaguars

Author:Biloine W. Young

“The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.”

Art Two War Standing Difficulty Wheels Lacking Art Of War Carts Two Wheels

Author:Kuroda Nagamasa

“The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.”

Ifs Art Play Poetry Understanding Imagination Serious Poet Speech Rhetoric Conducting Serious Business Free Play

Author:Immanuel Kant

Source: Kant's Critiques

“The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.”

Humans Wells Art Realizing Branches Endeavor

Author:Chris Hedges

Source: I Don't Believe in Atheists

“The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.”

Mind Humans Heart Art Play Form Imagination Human Beings Walks Emotion Brain Possibility Communication Heart And Mind Limitless Pathways Sustenance Open Your Heart Tandem

Author:Jacques d'Amboise

“The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not.”

Life Art Universe Human

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still - I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.”

Men Children Art Stills Hands Universe Cities Military Creation Treats Appreciation Deny Garbage Vastness Center Of The Universe

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.”

Giving Art Individual Belief Voice Ability Vision Audience Pride Democratic Creator Our Society Nurture Credo

Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“The arts saved my life.”

Art Saved

Author:Michael K. Williams

“The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.”

Art Shows Problem Form Quality Sweet Civilized Commercialism

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.”

Art Problem Students College Goes On Discipline Achievement Increase Graduates Odds Boost Performing Arts Art Education Music Education Student Achievement

Author:Arne Duncan

“The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'”

“The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral, it wasn't going to be finished until 1585. So they were thinking 200 years from now. Maybe by the time I die, this wall might be put up.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Art Might Dies Speak Wall Finished Cathedrals

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“The arts stop society going rotten and mad.”

Art Mad Rotten

Author:Vanessa Redgrave

“The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.”

Persons Art Enough Purpose Social Teach Painting Philosophical Artistic Formulas Translate

Author:Theophile Gautier

“The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.”

Children Art Problem Form Purpose Opportunity Teach Circumstances Complexes Fixed Problem Solving

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.”

Children Art Problem Answers Teach Solutions Teaching Children Problems And Solutions

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.”

Children Art Answers Teach Judgment Curriculum Good Judgment Qualitative

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.”

Art Differences Teach Effects Students Perception Traffic Subtlety Small Differences

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.”

Art Social Relevance

Author:Peter Guber

“The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.”

Art Humor Poetry Criticism Individuality Individualism Poets Public Opinion English Literature Conformism True That

Author:Oscar Wilde

Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism

“The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.”

Art Bigs Childhood Available Theatre Wealthy Opera Tickets Great Escape

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo sapiens, the arts of garden and landscape design probably spread to Europe from West Asia.”

Garden Design Landscape Architecture Landscape Design Sacred Gardens

Author:Tom Turner

Source: British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

“The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.”

Believe Art Important School Young Education Position Adults Curriculum School Curriculum

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.”

Humans Art Culture Simple Existence Style Demand Highest Reflection Mature Human Existence Plenitude

Author:Rudolf Arnheim

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.”

People World Children Art Film Strong Grows Common Safe Our Children Hopefully Barriers Offering Nurture Avenues Cultural Barriers

Author:Carson Grant

“The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.”

Should Art Helping Force Healing Policy Identity Shapes Concern Response Individuality Driving Core Treated Division Carpe Diem Carpe Driving Force Periphery Divisiveness Frills

Author:Barbara Jordan

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