Art Education Quotes

• 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.

  Dana Gioia

  Art, Real, Successful

  Commencement speech, Stanford University, June 17, 2007.

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

  Barack Obama

  Education, Carpe Diem, People

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Carpe Diem, Differences

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• It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.

  Quincy Jones

  Art, Math, Thinking

  "Arts Education in America" by Quincy Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2009.

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Arne Duncan

  Art, College, Odds

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Fools Day, Finding Yourself

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Children, Opportunity

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Book, Details

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

  Maria Shriver

  Art, Carpe Diem, Unique

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• 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.'

  Arne Duncan

  Art, Believe, Carpe Diem

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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• Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Teach, Significance

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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

  Charles Segars

  Art, Commitment, Democracy

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, House, Foundation

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• 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.

  Thad Cochran

  Art, Jobs, Math

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• Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Children, School, Carpe Diem

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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

  William Morris

  Art, Want, Arts And Crafts

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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