Stephen Schwartz Quotes

There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.

You can't bring the arts too soon to kids.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

If it's taught well, art really is important to kids early on. It helps children develop language and allows them to see themselves in a way that isn't right or wrong, because if they draw an animal with five legs instead of four, nobody's criticizing them for it.

The arts was always a place where I could be present.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

I was just over high school, and I was kind of artsy.

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.

The arts can be used to socialize young people.