Quotes About The Value Of The Arts

#1. I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

Herb Alpert

#2. The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

Denis Dutton

#3. The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Amit Kalantri

#4. Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

Northrop Frye

#5. Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

Brad Henry

#6. Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.

Bruce Lee

#7. If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Sara Sheridan

#8. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Albert Einstein

#9. The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Gavin Newsom

#10. Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

George Steiner

#11. All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value?

Louis MacNeice

#12. The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are.

Harry Chapin

#13. Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

Campbell McGrath

#14. Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

Duane Michals