Art Education Quotes

When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

I wouldnt be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus. And consensus is antithetical to the art process.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Education forms the common mind.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

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.'

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural exports for this country. It is imperative that we continue to support the arts and arts education both on the national and local levels. The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

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

The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.