Arts Importance Quotes

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

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

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

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

I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.

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.

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.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.

I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss - but the arts are vital. If you see Mark Rylance perform Shakespeare at the Globe, you know it's a spiritual act.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

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

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren't: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.

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.

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.