Rosie Perez Quotes

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

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

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

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

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.

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

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

I think it would be criminal if there was no art in school.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

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

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

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

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

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

We have to remind people how important arts are. People just don't see it.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

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

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.

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.

Bring the arts back, and treat it with respect.

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.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.