Lynn Collins Quotes

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went to these New York City public schools with these great arts education programs, so it was something that I was lucky enough to be able to be exposed to very early.

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed that creative outlet so much. Also, I'm just bad with numbers.

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.

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.

The arts really matter in education. Sometimes the arts are the only way a student is unlocked. Sometimes it's the only way a student can communicate.

I think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's going to be hanging in some museum after he dies. I don't want my daughter to be a struggling artist making no money.' People don't realize it's more than that. It's beautiful. It brings beauty to our lives.

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.

Ever since I was little, I was so infatuated with everything concerning the arts.