Eisner Art Quotes

#1. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#2. President Obama was in India yesterday visiting our jobs. Tomorrow he goes to China to visit our money. - Author: Jay Leno

#3. If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#4. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#5. Your passion may determine what you can do, but your attitude redefines how far you can go while you do what you can. Your attitude leads you and you lead other people! - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

#6. Management is not a science, it is an art. - Author: Michael Eisner

#7. we cannot be prudent without being good. - Author: Aristotle.

#8. You're incredible. I can feel your power and it's more than anything I ... Violet," he swallowed, watching me in awe. "It's like ... It's like you're as powerful as an angel."
-Lincoln - Author: Jessica Shirvington

#9. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#10. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#11. All art forms employ some means through which images become real. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#12. You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden. - Author: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#13. The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#14. If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure ... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#15. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#16. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#17. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#18. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#19. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world. - Author: Elliot W. Eisner

#20. Art is literacy of the heart. - Author: Elliot Eisner

#21. A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. - Author: Will Eisner