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Art Quotes by Elliot W. Eisner
- Art is literacy of the heart
- If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.
- 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…
- All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
- The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
- The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our…
- Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong