Jan Vogler Quotes

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

Art and life are inseparable.

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.

Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

Cultural activity is what makes us human.

The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Art is spiritual.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

Art is the skin of the soul.