William Eric Kinloch Anderson Quotes

I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.

It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn't because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn't believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single mom, so I think she had really good style; she was really free... just really inspiring in her own way and allowed me to find the direction I wanted to take in my life.

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

The Saving Our Cinderellas program is a facet of Saving Our Daughters which is more specifically geared towards using music, theatre, film and television as a means to help build self-esteem in our girls by developing programs that allow them to discover, explore and express their individuality using the arts.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

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.

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.

Young people can create beautiful things.