Why We Need Art Quotes

#1. The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Charles Simic

#2. Can't it just exist without an explanation? Why do we have to assign meaning to art? Do we need to understand everything? Maybe it exists to evoke feelings and emotions
period. Not to mean something.

Matthew Quick

#3. What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons ... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#4. Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

Michel De Montaigne

#5. However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!

Narendra Modi

#6. We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

LL Cool J

#7. Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they want to feel emotion! So emotionally moving things is great art to me!

Hiromi

#8. People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.

Mandy Patinkin

#9. We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.

Rosie O'Donnell

#10. Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful

Eric S. Rabkin

#11. You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making photographs ... In short, all that should be necessary to get a good picture is to take a good picture.

Edwin Land

#13. My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.

John Allison

#14. Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we.

Saul Bellow

#15. Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art ... Books are as essential as breathing.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#16. I think I need to give you a hockeymacation."
"Hockeymacation?"
"Yes, I am going to school you in the art of hockey"
"What! Seriously?"
"Yes, you need to be educated.

Toni Aleo

#17. Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

Yanni

#18. Don't try to follow trends. Create them.

Simon Zingerman

#19. Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Adam Gopnik