Audra McDonald Quotes

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such.

The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

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.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

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.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

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.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

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

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Art is the signature of civilizations.