Naomi Alderman Quotes

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

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

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.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

The arts help complete a person. I truly believe that.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

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.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

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 am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

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

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

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

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

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.