Rashid Johnson Quotes

When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.

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

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.'

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

I just like seeing kids inspired.

To have a National Endowment for the Arts is to sanction creativity, to provide space to support the poetic, and to give meaning to struggle, hope and life. The artist interprets and represents for us perspectives so that we can question, focus and reexamine our worlds, to imagine the possible and the impossible. The culture and arts of America are our greatest asset.

I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

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

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts.

You learn a lot from kids.